Fiona Ross (born 1954) is a British

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, academic and

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. Since 2003, she has worked at the

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, where she is a Professor and Lecturer in Non-Latin Typeface Design. She has received awards such as the 2014

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Typography Award and the 2018

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Medal. Ross was employed by Linotype's UK branch for designing fonts in non-Latin systems such as Bengali and Arabic. She received a PhD from

SOAS, University of London SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury are ...

in 1988, writing her thesis on the history of type design in the

Bengali alphabet The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet ( bn, বাংলা বর্ণমালা, ''Bangla bôrṇômala'') is the alphabet used to write the Bengali language based on the Bengali-Assamese script, and has historically been used to w ...

. She is a member of the Association Typographique International (

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) and a Fellow of the

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. As of 2016, she had worked on type design in systems including: "Arabic, Hindi, Devanagari, Malayalam, Sinhala, and Thai".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Fiona Living people Academics of the University of Reading British typographers and type designers 1954 births Alumni of SOAS University of London Alumni of the University of Kent