Fiona Ross (born 1954) is a British
type designer
Type design is the art and process of designing typefaces. This involves drawing each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concepts and design variables are described below.
A typeface differs from other modes of graphic production su ...
, academic and
linguist
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.
Since 2003, she has worked at the
University of Reading
The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...
, where she is a Professor and Lecturer in Non-Latin Typeface Design.
She has received awards such as the 2014
SoTA Typography Award and the 2018
TDC Medal.
Ross was employed by
Linotype's UK branch for designing fonts in non-Latin systems such as Bengali and Arabic.
She received a PhD from
SOAS, University of London
SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury are ...
in 1988, writing her thesis on the history of type design in the
Bengali alphabet
The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet ( bn, বাংলা বর্ণমালা, ''Bangla bôrṇômala'') is the alphabet used to write the Bengali language based on the Bengali-Assamese script, and has historically been used to w ...
.
She is a member of the Association Typographique International (
ATypI
The ATypI () or Association Typographique Internationale (the International Typography Association) is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to typography and type design. The primary activity of the association is an annual fall confe ...
) and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts.
As of 2016, she had worked on type design in systems including: "Arabic, Hindi, Devanagari, Malayalam, Sinhala, and Thai".
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Living people
Academics of the University of Reading
British typographers and type designers
1954 births
Alumni of SOAS University of London
Alumni of the University of Kent