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    A social history of women's role in type drawing offices
  • Women In Type

    A social history of women's role in type drawing offices
  • Women In Type

    A social history of women's role in type drawing offices
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Professor Fiona Ross specializes in non-Latin type design and typography, having a background in languages with a PhD in Indian Palaeography (SOAS). Fiona is a part-time member of staff of the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of...

Our Research

Women’s pivotal role in the development of type design is little known. Prof. Fiona Ross and team aim to change this, with an in-depth study of women in type-drawing offices, 1910–90. 'Women in Type' is a three-year, Leverhulme-funded research project...

Our Publications

Latest Posts
Undertaking archival research
6th December 2018
Our Atypi talk is online
5th October 2018
Early days of the Monotype Type Drawing Office
10th September 2018
Interviewing Patricia & David Saunders
20th August 2018
Reading list
15th August 2018

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