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Professor of Non-Latin Type Design at the University of Reading
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Fiona Ross (born 1954) is a British type designer, academic and linguist. Since 2003, she has worked at the University of Reading, where she is Professor and Lecturer in Non-Latin Typeface Design. She received the 2014 SoTA Typography Award and the 2018 TDC Medal.
Ross was employed by Linotype's UK branch designing fonts in non-Latin systems such as Bengali and Arabic. She received a PhD from SOAS, University of London in 1988, writing her thesis on the history of type design in the Bengali alphabet. As of 2016, she had worked on type design in systems including "Arabic, Hindi, Devanagari, Malayalam, Sinhala, and Thai".
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