{"id":70,"date":"2025-12-02T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/?p=70"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:59:10","slug":"type-design-multicultural-font-development-with-joana-ranito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/2025\/12\/02\/type-design-multicultural-font-development-with-joana-ranito\/","title":{"rendered":"Type Design &amp; Multicultural Font Development with Joana Ranito"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 10, 5:00 PM \u2014 Auditorium PS01, FBAUP<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an increasingly plural visual landscape, type design has expanded far beyond the Latin alphabet. In this talk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joanaranito\/\"><strong>Joana Ranito<\/strong> <\/a>shares her journey \u2014 from early work in <em>digital design<\/em> and UX\/UI to her specialization in multi-script type design and font engineering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawing from her training at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/ready-to-study\/study\/subject-area\/typography-and-graphic-communication-pg\/ma-typeface-design\">University of Reading<\/a> and her professional experience at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daltonmaag.com\">Dalton Maag<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/universalthirst.com\">Universal Thirst<\/a>, Joana offers an inside look at the processes, challenges, and decision-making behind developing complex multi-script typefaces, with a particular focus on the <strong>Bengali<\/strong> writing system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session includes in-depth discussions of two major case studies: the redesign of <strong>Noto Sans Bengali<\/strong> and her MATD project <strong>Curiosa<\/strong>. This is a rare opportunity for students, researchers, and the type community to understand the craft, sensitivity, and technical rigor required to design for a multilingual, globally connected world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more details (and see the future archived version of the conference on the course website) here: <a href=\"https:\/\/letterforms.fba.up.pt\/2025\/12\/02\/type-design-multicultural-font-development-with-joana-ranito\/\">https:\/\/letterforms.fba.up.pt\/2025\/12\/02\/type-design-multicultural-font-development-with-joana-ranito\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosted by: <strong>Type Drawing (DT101)<\/strong> \u2014 BA in Communication Design<br>In collaboration with: <strong>SIG Ligatures \/ i2ADS<br><\/strong>Institutional support: <strong>ATIPO \u2013 Portuguese Association for Typography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 10, 5:00 PM \u2014 Auditorium PS01, FBAUP In an increasingly plural visual landscape, type design has expanded far beyond the Latin alphabet. In this talk, Joana Ranito shares her journey \u2014 from early work in digital design and UX\/UI to her specialization in multi-script type design and font engineering. Drawing from her training at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-news","tag-upcoming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/aula-aberta-joana-ranito_redes-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ligatures.fba.up.pt\/sig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}