Jessica Nicole Hische (/hɪʃ/ HISH;[2] born April 4, 1984) is an American lettering artist, illustrator, author and type designer.

Hische left Louise Fili Ltd to further her freelance career as a letterer, illustrator, and type designer, citing her appreciation for the balance between work and personal life.

[8][9][10] During her time in New York, she shared studios with other prominent artists and designers at The Pencil Factory[11] and Studiomates[12] in Brooklyn.

In 2012 Hische moved to the Bay Area and from 2012 to 2020 worked out of Title Case, a by-appointment-only collaborative studio in San Francisco, CA.

[10] In 2020 she relocated her studio to downtown Oakland in a space that operates as both her office and letterpress printing and laser-cutting workshop.

Hische contributes much of her early commercial success to her personal project, "Daily Drop Cap"[13] along with other side projects including the Should I Work for Free flowchart[14] and "Don't Fear the Internet",[15] a tutorial website that teaches basic HTML and CSS to beginning web designers co-created with her husband Russ Maschmeyer.

[24]), Penguin Books, The New York Times, Tiffany & Co., OXFAM America, McSweeney’s, American Express, Target, Victoria’s Secret, Chronicle Books, Nike, Samsung, Adobe, Apple, Barack Obama, Facebook, HarperCollins, Hershey's, Honda, Kellogg's, Macy's, UNICEF, NPR and Wired Magazine.

[38] Hische counts designers Matthew Carter, Marian Bantjes, Chris Ware, Doyald Young, Ed Benguiat, and Alex Trochut among her heroes in type and lettering.