Phaedra Charles
Brand Designer at Gander
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhaedra Charles is a brand and type designer with 8 years of professional experience crafting custom lettering, typefaces, and expressive typographic systems for clients ranging from Tiffany & Co. to Google and The New York Times. Based in Boulder, she blends hands-on studio practice (co-founding Charles&Thorn) with in-house brand work at Gander, bringing both freelance versatility and corporate rigor to identity projects. A Cooper Union‑trained type designer and former senior designer at Louise Fili Ltd, she balances historical typographic sensitivity with contemporary brand needs. Her background includes letterpress, signpainting, and art direction—skills that inform artisanal detail in digital type and branding work. Known for turning hand-drawn forms into production-ready type families, she contributes to the field as a practicing type designer and lettering artist under the moniker undercasetype.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Post-Graduate Certificate, Typeface Design, Post-Graduate Certificate, Typeface Design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtThe University of Utah
Github Skills (34)
opentype10
fonts10
freetype10
cjk10
typeface10
latin10
webfonts10
font-size10
ufo10
font-family10
typesetting10
phonetics10
variable-fonts10
woff10
hebrew10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sponcey/Python
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
undercasetype/Fraunces
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
Git Repository for Fraunces Font Family
Contributions:3 releases, 61 commits, 247 PRs in 1 year 8 months
typesettingwebfontsphoneticsvariable-fontsufo
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