Fiona Ross specializes 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 Apple, Adobe Ananda Bazar Patrika, Google, Harvard University Press, Microsoft, and Monotype. For her work in type design and education, Fiona received the SoTA Typography Award (2014) and the Type Director’s Club Medal (2018). More recently she has been running a Leverhulme-funded ‘Women in Type’ research project with Dr Alice Savoie.

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www.women-in-type.com