Fiona Ross (type designer)
British type designer, academic and linguist
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Fiona Ross (born 1954) is a British type designer, academic and linguist.[1][2] Since 2003, she has worked at the University of Reading, where she is a Professor and Lecturer in Non-Latin Typeface Design.[3][4] She has received awards such as the 2014 SoTA Typography Award and the 2018 TDC Medal.[5][6][7][8]
- 2014 SoTA Typography Award
- 2018 TDC Medal
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| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) |
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| Alma mater | SOAS, University of London |
| Thesis | The evolution of the printed Bengali character from 1778 to 1978 (1988) |
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| Institutions | University of Reading |
Ross was employed by Linotype's UK branch for designing fonts in non-Latin systems such as Bengali and Arabic.[9][10][1] She received a PhD from SOAS, University of London in 1988, writing her thesis on the history of type design in the Bengali alphabet.[11][12][13] She is a member of the Association Typographique International (ATypI) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[14] As of 2016, she had worked on type design in systems including: "Arabic, Hindi, Devanagari, Malayalam, Sinhala, and Thai".[15]
