Press

Writing something about my typefaces?

I’m excited for you to cover my work! 😊 On this page you’ll find materials that you are most welcome to use in your piece, including images, links, and short descriptions of my type families.

You are welcome to check out the fonts themselves using my free testing license, and press passes for my Font of the Month Club are available upon request.

If you have used one of my fonts on an exciting project, I encourage you to submit them to Fonts In Use. And if you have any questions I can help answer, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!

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David Jonathan Ross, short bio

David Jonathan Ross draws letters of all shapes and sizes for custom and retail typeface designs. A native of Los Angeles, He began drawing typefaces at Hampshire College and joined The Font Bureau in 2007 where he honed his bézier-wrangling skills. Now he lives in the woods of Western Massachusetts and publishes his typeface designs at his own foundry, DJR, as well as working on projects with Type Network and developing unusual display faces for his Font of the Month Club.

For a longer bio, see my About page.

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Font of the Month Club

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Join the Font of the Month Club and get a new font in your inbox every single month for a year! Each font is lovingly designed and produced by David Jonathan Ross. Fonts of the month will include some of my experimental, standalone type design projects, as well as single styles from my upcoming retail typeface families. By diversifying your font collection with fresh and unusual designs, this club will help you push yourself to use new and interesting type in your work. Fonts are available each month for print, web, app, and e-book licensing at fontofthemonth.club.

Bungee

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Bungee is a font family that celebrates the urban sign — it wrangles the Latin alphabet to work vertically as well as horizontally, with separately glyphs, spacing, and kerning for each orientation. It also comes equipped with chromatic inlines, outlines, shades, and ornaments, making it the perfect toolkit to take your text in a new direction. Thanks to support from Google and The Font Bureau, Bungee is released under the SIL Open Font License, meaning that it is completely free and open-source. It is available for download at djr.com/bungee.

Selected Press