Nina Stoessinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type, an independent typeface design firm in Brooklyn NY, and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several award-winning retail typefaces (most recently, Cassis and Edgar, the latter designed together with Tobias Frere-Jones), Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for the New York City Football Club, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Microsoft, and SAS Institute, among others. 

Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club, chairing the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, Nina studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. They enjoy the confluence of form and content, language, history, and technology in typeface design, and aim to never stop learning.