Fiona Ross (type designer)
Fiona Ross (born 1954) is a British type designer, academic and linguist.[1] Since 2003, she has worked at the University of Reading, where she is Professor and Lecturer in Non-Latin Typeface Design.[2][3] She received the 2014 SoTA Typography Award and the 2018 TDC Medal.[4][5][6][7]
Fiona Ross | |
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Born | 1954 (age 65–66) |
Nationality | British |
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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 designing fonts in non-Latin systems such as Bengali and Arabic.[8][9][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.[10][11][12] She is a member of the Association Typographique International (ATypI) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[13] As of 2016, she had worked on type design in systems including "Arabic, Hindi, Devanagari, Malayalam, Sinhala, and Thai".[14]
References
- Nemeth, Titus (2017-07-17). Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age: The Influence of Technology on the Form of Arabic Type, 1908–1993. BRILL. pp. 259, 375. ISBN 978-90-04-34930-8.
- Leonidas, Gerry. "Fiona Ross is awarded the SoTA Award". University of Reading. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- "Typography Stories: Professor Fiona Ross". University of Reading. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- Phinney, Thomas. "Fiona Ross receives 2014 SOTA Typography Award". Phinney on Fonts. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- "The TDC Medal". Type Directors Club. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- Hudson, John. "The design contribution of Dr Fiona Ross" (PDF). Tiro Typeworks. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- "Fiona Ross Wins Typography Award". Harvard University Press blog. Harvard University Press. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- "Fiona Ross". Centre for Printing History and Culture. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- Kerrigan, Sally. "An interview with Dr. Fiona Ross". Typekit blog. Adobe Systems. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- Ross, Fiona. "The Bengali Types of Vincent Figgins". Matrix. 14: 205–212.
- Ross, Fiona. "The evolution of the printed Bengali character from 1778 to 1978 (PhD thesis)". SOAS Research Online. SOAS. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- Ross, Fiona. "Two Bengali grammars – a typographic perspective". British Library. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- "Fiona Ross". MyFonts. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- Riechers, Angela. "How to Design Typefaces in a Language You Can't Speak". Eye on Design. AIGA. Retrieved 2 July 2019.