Richard is a designer living in Brighton, UK. In 2005, he co-founded Clearleft, now one of the world’s leading digital design consultancies. Richard loves to combine his fascination for typography with a belief in the Web as a force for good. As a self-appointed web typography evangelist, Richard is chief organiser of Clearleft’s Ampersand web typography conferences. He also co-founded Fontdeck, a pioneering web font service. A few years ago he realised a dream and published his book Web Typography to much acclaim. Richard was named as one of Wired UK’s top 100 people shaping the digital world.