Jill Bell

Who is Jill Bell?

Jill Bell is an American lettering artist, calligrapher and type designer.

A graduate of UCLA and Otis/Parsons, Bell is a graphic artist who creates custom lettering, logotypes, titles, fonts and handwriting for advertising, entertainment, packaging, and publishing. Before establishing herself as a freelance artist, she worked as sign painter in a shop, and for Saul Bass. She also creates original, one-of-a-kind, fine art pieces that frequently feature alphabets and lettering.

Bell has created fonts for most of the major type foundrys including ITC, Adobe Systems and Monotype Corporation. Her fonts include: Gigi, Smack, Carumba, Hollyweird, Bruno and Swank. She has also designed and produced proprietary fonts for companies including Loehmann's, Enesco, GSW Worldwide, the Navicor Group and Nestlé.

Jill Bell's work has appeared in various shows, annuals and books, and has been written about in newspapers, journals and magazines. Her work can be seen in the following books:

⁕Type Rules by Ilene Strizver,

⁕Creative Type by de Jong, Purvis and Friedl,