John D. Berry is an editor and typographer with an equal interest in the meaning of words and their presentation. He has designed many books and 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 was President of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), and he was the last editor of U&lc (Upper & lower case). He is the founding director of the Scripta Typographic Institute. He was a programme manager on the Fonts team at Microsoft, where he helped develop improved typographic standards for Windows and other Microsoft products. John has taught typography and design at Cornish College of the Arts. He has also written, spoken and consulted on typography for many years. John lives in Seattle with writer Eileen Gunn.