Jim Parkinson was born in Richmond, California, in 1941, and he's been lettering ever since. In addition to his custom font work, Jim has designed dozens of retail fonts and exclusive fonts for Adobe, Monotype, FontShop, The Font Bureau, Chank and ITC. His typographic logos appear on the covers of many magazines and newspapers, including Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, InStyle, El Graphico, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Detroit Free Press, The Montreal Gazette and The National Post.