Fiona Ross (type designer)
Fiona Ross 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. She is a member of the Association Typographique International 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".
