The best typographers for hire in the United Kingdom

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Edward 5 star rating

Brighton, United Kingdom

Graphic Design professional with over 20 years experience specialising in cover design and illustration.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Nature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Fantasy, and Literary Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Warner Music
  • Penguin Books UK
  • Self-employed

Sandra 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

I am book designer with 15 years of experience creating covers and interiors for non-fiction and illustrated books.

Genres: Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, History, Political Science & Current Affairs, LGBTQ Non-Fiction, Photography, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, and Design.

Work experience:

  • McGill-Queens University Press
  • Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • University of Toronto Press
  • Pearson Canada
  • University of Minnesota Press
  • British Library
  • Princeton University Press
  • Reaktion Books

Vanessa 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

🟡 Experienced book designer available for book cover and interior book design/typesetting. 🟡

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Christian Non-Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Poetry, Thriller & Suspense, Humor & Comedy, and Self-Help & Self-Improvement.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Jason 5 star rating

Hassocks, United Kingdom

Book jacket design designer with over twenty years experience in the industry.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Political Science & Current Affairs, Humanities & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, and Technology.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Nick 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

I am a book cover designer with 20 years experience. I have designed everything from thrillers, crime books and illustrated womens fiction.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Crime, and Thriller & Suspense.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • HarperCollins

Designer, typesetter and illustrator with excellent typographic skills and a quirky drawing style.

Genres: Math & Science, Non-Fiction, Entertainment, Transportation, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Children's.

Work experience:

  • The Folio Society
  • Veloce Publishing
  • Clarity Media

I am an illustrator and art director based in London. I love illustrating children's and young adults books!

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Nature, and Parenting & Families.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

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Award Winning Book Designer specialising in Illustration and attention-grabbing Graphic Design.

Genres: Psychological Thriller, Thriller & Suspense, Fiction, Cozy Mysteries, Mystery & Crime, New Adult, Young Adult, Contemporary Fiction, Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, and Action & Adventure.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Better Food
  • VIVID. a post_rock festival

Graphic designer and art director with over 15 years experience working in the publishing industry.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Middle Grade Fantasy, Children's, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery & Crime, and Middle Grade.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Penguin Random House

Experienced Graphic Designer with over a decade in the publishing industry and a specialisation in children's books.

Genres: Children’s Non-Fiction and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • i am a bookworm
  • Blaze Entertainment Ltd
  • Parragon Ltd

Experienced freelance editorial designer & art director covering creative visual book design & all aspects of editorial printed publishing.

Genres: Health & Wellbeing, Non-Fiction, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Psychology, Humanities & Social Sciences, Art, Home & Garden, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, and Design.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Kelsey Publishing

I am a professional book formatter/interior designer who enjoys working in all genres, from fantasy and sci-fi to romance and YA fiction.

Genres: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, and Young Adult.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

Experienced text and cover designer with clients including Oxford Dictionaries, The BNF, Thames & Hudson and many fine art and trade books.

Genres: Anthologies, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Architecture, ELT, Education & Reference, Medicine, Nursing, & Dentistry, Math & Science, and Design.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Oxford University Press
  • Motivate Publishing
  • Goodfellow & Egan, Cambridge

Book designer with 10+ years' experience in creating smart, striking, market-ready designs.

Genres: Sex & Relationships, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Fiction, New Age, Picture Books, Children's, and Children’s Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Wonderbly
  • Laurence King Publishing
  • Nosy Crow
  • Penguin Random House

A highly collaborative designer, producing impactful covers, interiors and marketing images for a wide range of genres. I cannot scuba dive.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, African American Fiction, Women's Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Science Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, and Contemporary Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Visit Wales

Alison 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

A Designer and Art Director with over 30 years experience in Music and Publishing.

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Home & Garden, Music, Entertainment, Middle Grade, Design, Photography, and Architecture.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Carlton Publishing Group

Senior designer in publishing with nearly ten years' experience in book jacket design and illustration.

Genres: Romantic Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Poetry, Literary Fiction, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Non-Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Music, and Nature.

Work experience:

  • Birlinn Ltd
  • Freelance

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Hire the best typographers in the UK

If your book is graphically complex, as is the case with cookbooks, textbooks, reference books, poetry books, and graphic novels, collaborating with a professional typographer will help you ensure that your book makes use of the best possible type (also known as book font) for its aims.

Drawing from their years of experience in the publishing industry and their acute sense of graphic design, our typographers in the UK will look for or create a font that embodies your work’s sensibility, and which works with the amount of spacing designated in your layout design. Their work often goes unnoticed, but that’s the sign of a typographical success — when it flawlessly fits into place, never making the reader pay attention to the formatting of the work.

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