Peter Nowell is an independent designer, educator, and entrepreneur based in San Francisco. His portfolio spans UI/UX, web design & development, branding, print, and custom typography, for clients as small as San Francisco’s Juice Shop and as large as Apple. Peter’s work has been honored by the D&AD Awards, the W3 Awards, and the Type Directors Club.

His online courses platform Sketch Master has trained thousands of designers around the world, and he has led workshops for design teams at Google, Fitbit, and many creative agencies.

Peter excels at the intersection of disparate disciplines. Whether through design, training, art, engineering, or entrepreneurship, his meticulous approach prioritizes honest, elegant, human-centric solutions—from the vision to the smallest detail.

Introducing Font Proofer

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Font Proofer is a Mac app for typeface designers that dramatically improves the essential process of testing work-in-progress fonts.

Years in the making, Font Proofer is my latest self-initiated project.

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A single conversation with the right person, at the right moment, can be pivotal to a project’s success. Whether you’re a designer or a business leader, we can focus on everything from your project’s vision to the execution of practical details.

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