Sebastian "Seb" Lester (born 1972 in London) is a London-based type designer, typographic illustrator and artist. Lester is notable for prominent type designs, book cover designs and calligraphic prints.
Lester is notable for his 2009â2010 redesigns for Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton of four covers of J. D. Salinger books, including The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey. Lester is notable for his design of the official font, Neo Sans, of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. A customized version of Neo is also used by Intel. Lester also helped develop the mastheads for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph in the UK and the Waitrose corporate typeface. Lester studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins in London, graduating in 1997. In addition to type design, Lester is famous for his prints, many of which are characterized by words built up of rich, dense calligraphic strokes and flourishes.
