Based in New York’s Hudson Valley, Jesse Ragan works as a typeface designer and partner at XYZ Type, where he designs typefaces such as the publicly-released Aglet and Study. He specializes in making fonts from scratch, creating lettering for logotypes, and helping people understand how letterforms tick. In his work for clients like Rolling Stone, Dartmouth College, and the New York Public Library, he solves the puzzle of each assignment with systematic thinking and strategic historical references.
Jesse studied graphic design at Rhode Island School of Design. After interning at Font Bureau, he began his career at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, where he helped create the typeface Gotham. He served on AIGA NY’s board of directors and co-founded Type@Cooper, the postgraduate program at Cooper Union where he taught typeface design for four years.
