John D. Berry an editor and a typographer, equally passionate about the meaning of words and the way they are presented. He designed a lot of books, and have written or edited several, including Language culture type: international type design in the age of Unicode (ATypI/Graphis, 2002), Contemporary newspaper design: shaping the news in the digital age (Mark Batty Publisher, 2004), and U&lc: influencing design & typography(Batty, 2005).

John D. Berry have been president of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), and was the final editor & publisher of U&lc (Upper & lower case). He is the founding director of the Scripta Typographic Institute. He was a program manager on the Fonts team at Microsoft, where he helped establish improved typographic standards for Windows and other Microsoft products. John have taught typography and design at Cornish College of the Arts. And he have been writing, speaking, and consulting about typography for many years. John live in Seattle with the writer Eileen Gunn.