This is the online home of Ben Jones, an independent Type Designer and Font Engineer. If you would like to get in contact with me, just send an email to . I am also on twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

This is the online home of Ben Jones, an independent Type Designer and Font Engineer. If you would like to get in contact with me, just send an email to . I am also on twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.


Glyphs Scripts

I have a collection of Glyphs scripts, freely available on Github.


Font Engineering Services

I offer font engineering services of all types, including:

  • Routine productisation for your fonts, including technical quality checks for the outlines and various other parameters, font naming with style linking, vertical metrics consistency, font validation, etc.
  • Opentype layout coding, from the mundane to the complex, such as for Arabic, Devanagari, or Gujarati.
  • Font problem solving (e.g. Font menu sorting, OS discrepancies, MS Office issues).
  • Custom scripts for Glyphs app or other general Python programming.

History of the graphical design of matchboxes

As part of my Typography and Graphic Communication degree course I was required to write a 20,000 word dissertation. The subject I chose to write about was the history and evolution of the matchbox cover/label from its beginnings in 1827 to the present day. This is now available for download in PDF format for strictly personal, non-commercial purposes from here (about 1.5Mb) vulcan match box label