Designer
Educator
Ben Kiel is a typeface designer, graphic designer, and educator. He runs Typefounding, a typeface design and production studio in Saint Louis, Missouri. Before starting Typefounding, he worked at House Industries where he worked as a typeface designer, director, and developer. At House, he worked as part of the team that developed the online Photo-Lettering service, shortlisted as a Design of the Year by the London Design Museum in 2012.
Cortado Script Custom Ink Dala Prisma Girard Slab Girard Sky Goliath Lucky Times Neutraface Display Cyrillic New Yorker Irvin New Yorker Neutraface West Barnum Worthe Numerals

Cortado Script is the retail version of a custom typeface Jesse Ragan and I worked on for MP Creative’s 2013 ‘Give me Aldo’ campaign. The design is based on illustrator Cecilia Carlstedt’s unique interpretation of pointed brush lettering. Using innovative OpenType features, the typeface uses a combination of connection breaks, alternate letter shapes, ligatures, and initial and final forms to bring the looseness of lettering to a digital typeface. ⇒View more and purchase Cortado Script
Contact
ben@benkiel.com @benkiel (314) 833-7646
Typeface Design
Cortado Script Custom Ink Dala Prisma Girard Slab Girard Sky Goliath Lucky Times Neutraface Display Cyrillic New Yorker Irvin New Yorker Neutraface West Barnum Worthe Numerals
Elsewhere
Typefounding