Fiona Ross | |
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 Ross speaking at TypeCon2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota | |
| Born | 1954 (age 70–71) |
| Nationality | British |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | SOAS, University of London |
| Thesis | The evolution of the printed Bengali character from 1778 to 1978 (1988) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Reading |
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]
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]
