Carolyn Porter

Carolyn Porter’s fascination with typography has led to larger achievements than she imagined. She not only designed a font for other designers to use, she has authored a book to share the intriguing story behind its creation.The creation of Marcel Script became a 12-year labor of love as Porter, a University of Wisconsin-Stout alumna, painstakingly worked on it around running her graphic design business. Her interest in knowing more about the man behind the handwriting upon which the font is based took her on another path, leading to the publication of “Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate,” which came out in June.