# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tobias-frere-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:09:20.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tobias-frere-jones"
name: "Tobias Frere-Jones"
slug: "tobias-frere-jones"
description: "Tobias Frere-Jones is an American type designer who works in New York City. He operates the company Frere-Jones Type and teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program."
tagline: "American typographer (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MK48955_BeyondTellerrand_Tobias_Frere-Jones.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1970-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.34
  momentum:             2.972972972972973
  historical:           8.769693333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/frerejones"
    handle:    "frerejones"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://frerejones.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Frere-Jones"
    title: "Tobias Frere-Jones"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Frere-Jones"
    title: "Tobias Frere-Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Frere-Jones"
    title: "Tobias Frere-Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "トバイアス・フリア＝ジョーンズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Frere-Jones"
    title: "Tobias Frere-Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Frere-Jones"
    title: "Tobias Frere-Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%89%98%E6%8B%9C%E5%8E%84%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E5%BC%97%E9%87%8C%E5%B0%94-%E7%90%BC%E6%96%AF"
    title: "托拜厄斯·弗里尔-琼斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tobias_Frere-Jones"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3bf16c1b-5210-4a38-8a12-469c801e774c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257862"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump