Christopher Slye

Christopher Slye works with type. Since 1994, he has designed typefaces, produced font software, developed web standards, and practiced the business and licensing of type in all media — while working with designers, developers, companies, agencies, and users of type and type technology around the world.

Christopher’s career in type began with an original typeface, Elmhurst, while working as a consultant for type development and typographic design.

Christopher joined the Adobe type team in 1997, where he remained for over 22 years, designing and producing type, ultimately managing type licensing and business for the entire company.

Along the way, he extended Elmhurst for Rolling Stone, helped run TypeCon, contributed to CSS web fonts and the WOFF font format, and joined the Letterform Archive’s board of directors. From 2021 to 2023, he was president of Type Network.