Hi, I’m Dan Cederholm. SimpleBits® is my tiny design studio, type foundry, and goods shop based in Salem, Mass.

“Never perfect. Always a-okay.”

We make handmade letters and numbers (and goods with those letters and numbers on them) for people like you. Our fonts are (hopefully) unique-but-familiar display typefaces that’ll help designers make interesting and fun things. Often inspired by vintage lettering and type, our alphabets and goods are genuine and shipped worldwide.

SimpleBits has also been a design studio and blog for over two decades. We are, at times, available for logo design projects.

Email us:
mail@simplebits.com

SimpleBits® LLC
203 Washington Street #292
Salem, MA 01970 USA

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  • Dan Cederholm

    Founder & Captain

  • Melissa Allegrini

    Skipper of Operations

  • “Murray”

    Culture Guru

About Dan Cederholm

A designer, accidental-entrepreneur, and maker of handmade things, Dan is founder of SimpleBits. He writes books about design and web, records music in his garage, and ocassionally hosts a podcast. His love of type turned into designing display fonts, letterpress printing, and learning new things. He’s a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed captain and possibly the world’s worst fisherman. Previously, he co-founded Dribbble, a popular community for designers he created with his friend Rich Thornett in 2008.

In a previoius life, Dan was a standards-based web designer and keynote speaker at events around the globe. He worked with companies like YouTube, Microsoft, Google, MTV, ESPN, Electronic Arts, Blogger, Fast Company, and more. He’s also a 2011 TechFellow and co-founded and designed Cork’d, which was the first social network for wine aficionados (later acquired by Gary Vaynerchuk).

Books by Dan

Over the years, Dan has written eight books on design, CSS, web standards, and accidental-entrepreneurism. They are/were printed on paper and it’s possible you may even want to read them.