Why Public?
Michael Cina has spent thirty years in type design and thirty years in branding, two disciplines that rarely live in the same person. He still draws type every day. Moving between those worlds gave him an instinct for what feels right and what actually works. His career spans type design, brand identity, and fine art. He has shaped identities for global organizations, created hundreds of album covers for Ghostly International, won an Emmy, and earned a Grammy nomination for his design work. Alongside that commercial practice, he has long kept an art practice exploring color, texture, perception, and process. That breadth is what shapes Public Type. Cina doesn't treat type as an isolated discipline. He understands how it behaves inside identities, campaigns, products, digital systems, and culture, because he has spent decades working across all of them.
Danny Litin speaks the languages of both creative and commerce, and has spent his life learning to hold them in the same room. His focus is on creative production and business strategy, with a conviction that the value has to be just as clear to executives as to the designers putting it to work every day. At Public Type he works alongside brand teams and agencies to explore what their type can become: a shift in tone of voice, an asset that compounds in value, a system that unites everything a company makes. His favorite part of the job is when some brilliant designer takes a Public Type font into a new cultural corner and does something that stops him and Cina in their tracks.
Join Us
Have a typeface in progress? We help designers finish their work through refinement, engineering, and production, then handle specimen creation, release strategy, and marketing. Contributors receive clear credit and structured royalties. We're excited to see what you're working on. Send us an email with your proposal to we[at]publictype.us
We’re always looking for additional type designers, font engineers, and graphic designers. If you think you'd be a great fit for our team, we'd love to hear from you for future opportunities. Send us your resume and portfolio link to we[at]publictype.us
We’re always interested in meeting emerging designers who want to learn more about type, design, and the business around it. Internships are shaped around the person, their interests, and what we’re working on at the time. Send a short introduction and portfolio to we[at]publictype.us.
