Stephen Nixon
Font Engineer at The Type Founders
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Nixon is a Font Engineer and founder of ArrowType with six years of experience designing and engineering retail and custom typefaces from his New York studio. Currently a Font Engineer at The Type Founders, he blends practical UI sensibilities with deep typographic craft—his contributions to the popular Recursive variable font demonstrate expertise in code- and UI-focused type systems. Trained at KABK’s TypeMedia and with a background in product and brand design at IBM, he bridges design thinking, scripting-driven proofs (e.g., DrawBot), and production font engineering. He’s known for turning experimental features into production-ready fonts and packages that improve legibility and developer workflows.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
TypeMedia Type Design, TypeMedia Type Design at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague | Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK)BA Graphic Design Business Management Minor, BA Graphic Design Business Management Minor at University of MinnesotaBA Graphic Design Design and Interaction, BA Graphic Design Design and Interaction at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design
Github Skills (5)
font-face10
fonts10
python9
ui-design8
css7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
arrowtype/recursive
Aug 2019 - Jul 2022
Recursive Mono & Sans is a variable font family for code & UI
Role in this project:
UI Designer & Font Engineer
UI Designer & Font EngineerContributions:38 releases, 725 commits, 114 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Stephen's commits primarily involve the development and refinement of font design elements and user interface components. They were responsible for creating proofs for new font features using DrawBot scripts, incorporating those features into static fonts, and making code-specific font packages. The user's work impacted the overall visual style and technical functionality of the "Recursive" font family and its use in UI applications.
google-fontsmonofonttype-designvariable-font
arrowtype/vf-slnt-test
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
Tests for browser support of CSS font-style property & variable fonts
Contributions:71 commits, 7 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years 9 months
browsergoogle-fontsbrowser-supportcssfont-size
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