David Berlow, the president of Font Bureau, is a 44-year veteran of the type industry. Beginning his career in 1978 at Mergenthaler-Linotype, Stempel, and Haas, he moved on to one of the first digital type foundries, Bitstream, in 1982. Berlow began consulting and sub-contracting to Apple Computer in 1989, leading development of the era-defining fonts for macOS 7 that introduced the TrueType format, and later the first variable font, Skia. His fonts are distributed by Google, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Monotype, Morisawa and Type Network. He has been the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from both the Type Directors Club and the Society of Type Aficionados.