Maya Chen
Lettering designer and type educator · Portland, Oregon · 14 years of experience
Maya started in hand lettering and moved into digital type, logo lettering and brand wordmarks. She has spent 14 years designing custom lettering, wordmarks and display type for brands, packaging and editorial projects, and she teaches lettering workshops on spacing, stroke contrast and script lettering.
She covers script, sans and display styles, and the practical side of using lettering on websites, social posts, packaging and print. She cares about spacing, stroke contrast, baseline alignment and whether a style stays readable once it leaves the screen.
Experience and background
- 14 years designing custom lettering, wordmarks and display type for brands, packaging and editorial projects
- Teaches lettering workshops (spacing, stroke contrast, script lettering)
- Background in hand lettering, digital type, logo lettering and brand wordmarks
What Maya does on this site
- Writes the guides
- Sets the style rules and editorial standards
- Decides which generator outputs are clear enough to publish as examples
- Approves what gets published
See the editorial policy for how pages are written and checked. Content questions and corrections: [email protected].