
Rousselot began as a freelance designer at a very young age, soon devoting himself to the alphabet. He worked in Chicago with pupils of Goudy and Cooper: William Ficho, Carl Corley and Ferrell Daniels. He wrote about his experience:
I´ve done everything, but nothing has ever kept me away from my first love: the alphabet. I´ve tried to improve it each day, inspired by the letters on Trajan´s column: never to be forgotten, without equal...
Calligraphy must be expressive and clear, emanating warmth and ´joie de vivre´. ´Anything worthy of being written is worth being written well´.


