Dutch type designer and technical font whiz kid. Started the
LettError virtual type foundry with
Erik van Blokland, with whom he worked at
MetaDesign.
Fame came with the release of
Beowolf (co-designed with van Blokland), a font whose ragged edges shift randomly each time you print the font. His oeuvre includes many typefaces that are deliberately low-tech in appearance. Most of his fonts are published by
FontFont.
He is a key developer on the Robofog project with Erik and
Petr van Blokland. He also leads a drive to get the font tool developer community to use XML as a font interchange format; his own TTX program is an excellent start.
