Remote Typography Designer

About the Role

Are you passionate about bringing stories to life through the art of letterforms? Ready to take charge of your future while working remotely with a team that values creativity, precision, and innovation? We’re looking for a skilled Remote Typography Designer who can merge technical mastery with artistic vision to elevate our visual language across digital platforms. This is your chance to make an impact through thoughtful type design, engaging layouts, and captivating typographic systems that guide users and tell compelling stories.

Why This Role Matters

Typography is more than just choosing a font—it’s about voice, emotion, clarity, and rhythm. In this role, you’ll become an integral part of our creative team, crafting the visual tone of our brand. From bold campaign headlines to micro-interactions in user interfaces, your typographic work will influence how audiences engage with our content and experience our brand. As we continue to scale across digital platforms and global audiences, your work will shape the visual identity that defines our user experience.

Key Responsibilities

Typographic Design

• Develop type-centric solutions for marketing campaigns, websites, mobile apps, and brand systems.
• Design customized font systems, kerning adjustments, and typographic hierarchies for various digital touchpoints
• Translate complex messaging into clean, readable, and emotionally resonant typographic compositions.

Visual Storytelling

• Partner with visual designers and copywriters to bring narratives to life through expressive type
• Establish tone and personality using typographic styling that aligns with brand voice.
• Enhance storytelling in product, advertising, and promotional content using intentional type decisions.

Style Guide Development

• Create, maintain, and evolve typography guidelines within a broader design system.
• Standardize font usage across platforms to ensure consistency and accessibility.
• Implement scalable rules for spacing, line height, letter spacing, and responsive typography.

Technical Typography

• Collaborate with web developers to ensure the seamless implementation of web-safe fonts and advanced typographic features, such as variable fonts.
• Optimize type for performance, readability, and accessibility across devices and screen sizes.
• Collaborate with engineers to address typographic bugs, rendering issues, and layout constraints.

User Experience Enhancement

• Use type to improve readability, legibility, and user flow within UI components.
• Apply principles of information hierarchy and spatial balance to guide the user’s eye.
• Participate in UX/UI critiques to evaluate the effectiveness of typography in interface designs.

Our Creative Environment

You’ll be working in a supportive and idea-driven culture where every design choice is purposeful and collaborative. We celebrate diverse design voices and empower each team member to contribute ideas that challenge the norm. Here, your type designs will influence everything from digital product experiences to brand storytelling in global campaigns.

The team is remote-first, with flexible hours and a culture of trust and accountability. We utilize modern tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Slack to stay connected and work efficiently. You’ll have access to type libraries, font licenses, and regular critiques to grow your skills and expand your creative palette.

Tools & Technology You'll Use

• Figma and Adobe Illustrator for type layouts and UI mockups
• FontLab, Glyphs, or Robofont for font development and refinement
• After Effects for kinetic typography in video motion pieces
• CSS/HTML knowledge for type implementation on the web
• Access to Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, and commercial font foundries

Skills and Qualifications

Required Experience

• At least 3 years of professional experience as a typographer or graphic designer with a strong typographic focus
• A digital portfolio that demonstrates an exceptional understanding of type hierarchy, contrast, rhythm, and layout
• Deep knowledge of typeface classification, anatomy, and design trends
• Understanding of font licensing, web-safe fonts, and responsive typography systems

Bonus Skills

• Experience developing or modifying typefaces using font editing tools
• Background in UI/UX design, digital accessibility, or editorial design
• Familiarity with motion design and dynamic type animations
• Awareness of multilingual typography and global font support

What We Offer

• Annual salary of $77,991
• Flexible remote work from anywhere
• A creative culture that values innovation and experimentation
• Access to exclusive type libraries and digital design tools
• Ongoing professional development through workshops, conferences, and learning stipends
• Mentorship from seasoned typographers and art directors
• Wellness benefits and mental health support programs

Who You Are

You have a discerning eye for detail, a love for design systems, and a passion for pushing the limits of type in digital environments. You’re someone who geeks out over ligatures, balances visual weight like a pro, and believes typography can influence emotion and behavior. You’re self-motivated, highly collaborative, and always curious about what’s next in design evolution.

This role is perfect for someone looking to grow within a forward-thinking creative team where your typographic sensibility won’t just be appreciated—it’ll be central to everything we create.

Growth and Opportunities

Joining our team means joining a fast-paced, design-forward company that invests in creative people. We believe in internal mobility and support career paths that lead from specialist to leadership roles, or even across departments for hybrid creatives. Many of our team members have gone on to launch type foundries, teach workshops, or lead cross-functional projects across brand and product teams.

Your Next Step

Are you ready to turn letters into meaning, grids into rhythm, and ideas into movement? Are you excited to work with a team that recognizes type as both a craft and a voice? Then this might be the perfect opportunity for you.

Your next big opportunity awaits—apply now and let your typography do the talking.