micah rich

Stacker, a tool for generating internal tools, portals, and dashboards, hired me to design and develop their main database UI.

Articles, definitions, and resources to help you learn more about typography from Google Fonts. Initially designed as an interative microsite with interactive widgets to illustrate typographic concepts; content & design were later integrated into the main Google Fonts site.

A microsite for the launch of the Gangster Grotesk font, with highly animated & interactive custom-built widgets to showcase the font.

Compact Magazine, working directly with Pentagram, hired me to design & develop their new website.

Type Thursday, a global community of type designers & enthusiasts, hired me to design and develop internal tools for organizing events, revenue sharing, and more.

Wildebeest & Cheetos hired me to design & develop a machine-learning based app for a Superbowl campaign — which won awards from Cannes Lion, D&AD, Webbies, and more.

Lexend Fonts, a project funded by Google to make a variable font that's customized to your reading ability, hired me to design & develop their identity and website.

A membership, newsletter, and curated collection of the best and most unique fonts available for commercial use.

Designed & developed the first open-source font foundry, back in 2009 as browsers were starting to allow @font-face. Built it into an audience of 100k+ designers.

The Quick Brown Fox Tee was just one of the many pieces of merch over the years for The League, designed & sold exclusively to our audience.

Designed & developed a series of online courses & partner workshops with leading typography & font experts for The League. Ran both live & on-demand for memberships.

Developed & produced a long-running podcast on fonts, typography, design, and the web for The League, featuring news, interviews, and more. Over 100 episodes produced, including interviews with some of the biggest names in the industry.

A custom internal tool for The League, to help interns generate and send our newsletter to the community. Built specifically to allow dynamic templates that no other tool offered — specifically so paid members see extra content in the same email as free members.

Wrote, designed, and published a book on all the ins-and-outs of font licensing for The League. A true labor of love, but has proven wildly helpful to the design community at large, especially new and budding designers navigating the world of fonts for the first time.

A one-man team, building all the custom internal tools for a multi-million active user realtime app platform. Product managed, designed, and developed, leveraging the most up-to-date technologies (Next.js, Vercel, feature flags, custom analytics, realtime systems, and more) increasing efficiency by 60% & response time by 30%.

Designed & developed a realtime video monitoring system for the Citizen team to watch, approve, or reject live video crime reports.

Designed & developed a custom front & backend for parsing realtime 911 audio signals into an advanced keyboard-navigable player for the team to review.

Wildebeest & Cheetos hired me to design & develop a machine-learning based app for a Superbowl campaign — which won awards from Cannes Lion, D&AD, Webbies, and more.

Designed & developed a custom internal tool for General Assembly, tracking student progress, attendance, and NPS scores.

Redesigned & developed the WDI curriculum for General Assembly from scratch to be more modular, flexible, and up-to-date with the latest tech — including React, Node, and more.

After redesigning the curriculum, I worked with teachers across General Assembly, on every continent, to craft a new handbook that was more engaging & effective — including a Harry Potter length textbook to teach the material.