He attended a special arts-focused private school in Brooklyn called Saint Ann’s School before attaining his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in the early nineties. This exposure to imported goods helped him to understand the jobs behind why letters looked the way they looked. Because he grew up before the computerization of type and design, a lot of type design that was developed in specific countries stayed in those same countries-however, since Frere-Jones’ mother was English, he received a lot of exposure to British type designs, most notably Gill Sans. He has one brother, Sasha, who is a music critic that worked for the New Yorker for a period of time. His mother, Elizabeth Frere, was an English native hailing from Kent, a county right outside of London. He was born on August 28, 1970, in Brooklyn to Elizabeth Frere and Robin Jones. He still lives and works there, at a type foundry in Brooklyn called Frere-Jones Type. Tobias Frere-Jones is a type designer from New York City.
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