International Design Talks

Indic Engineering: key issues in Indic type production and design

Amélie Bonet
Labs 2017
Saturday, 8 April 2017 | 11:00 | Cupola
English

Indic Engineering: key issues in Indic type production and design

Amélie Bonet
Labs 2017 | Saturday, 8 April 2017 | 11:00 | Cupola | English
What are the typical pitfalls when designing and engineering Indic typefaces? The talk will follow a reverse road map of a typical Indic type project, with a focus on Devanagari, from engineering to marketing via design.
Amélie Bonet

Amélie Bonet

Type Designer, Font Engineer(Berlin)
Amélie Bonet is a type designer and font engineer, based in Berlin, Germany. She developed a passion for type design with a focus on Indic scripts, during her years in Reading and London. Amélie has worked on projects involving various writing systems, such as Arabic, Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari,... Read More

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