Fiona Ross
Fiona Ross specialises in type design and typography primarily for Arabic, South Asian, and Thai scripts, with a background in languages and PhD in Indian Palaeography (SOAS). She is Professor in Type Design (part-time) at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication (University of Reading, UK). Fiona works as a consultant, type designer, author and lecturer and has co-curated seven international exhibitions. Her design work has been in collaboration with Tim Holloway, John Hudson and Neelakash Kshetrimayum for clients such as Ananda Bazar Patrika, Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Monotype and Harvard University Press. For her work in type design and education, Fiona received the SoTA Typography Award (2014) and the Type Director’s Club Medal (2018). Recently she has been running a Leverhulme-funded 'Women in Type' research project.
Typefaces
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Tiro Telugu
2 fonts with generously proportioned shapes for good legibility and elegant, traditional forms, able to display complex conjuncts.
కొమరంభీం కొమరంభీం -
Tiro Tamil
2 fonts that present the traditional typographic forms of Tamil script in both upright and slanted styles.
இராஜபாளையம் இராஜபாளையம் -
Tiro Kannada
2 fonts featuring organic forms inspired by diverse Kannada metal types of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
ತುಮಕೂರು ತುಮಕೂರು -
Tiro Gurmukhi
2 fonts that reintroduce traditional manuscript stroke modulation to Punjabi typography.
ਸੰਗਰੂਰ ਸੰਗਰੂਰ -
Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit
2 fonts featuring an extensive set of traditional conjunct ligature forms in a western Devanagari style.
व्यासपुर व्यासपुर -
Tiro Devanagari Marathi
2 fonts in western Devanagari style with many traditional vertical conjunct forms for Marathi literary texts.
जळगाव जळगाव -
Tiro Devanagari Hindi
2 fonts in northern Devanagari style with broad proportions and robust strokes suitable for both print and screen reading.
नदौन नदौन -
Tiro Bangla
2 fonts in traditional Bangla (Bengali) book style, following manuscript traditions of letterform construction.
কলকাতা কলকাতা