EXPLORING DIVERSITY - What difference does a FONT make?

Font Designer: Pilar Cano
Font: Edita (paragraph text font in above graphic)
Exhibit: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work (2019 Duke University Libraries, 2020 Grolier Club, New York)

Pilar Cano is a typeface designer from Barcelona with her MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, UK. Cano is the co-founder with Ferran Milan of Letterjuice foundry based in Buenos Aires and Barcelona and has recently explored designing fonts in Arabic, Hebrew and Latin and she often lectures and teaches courses on design.

Font Designer: Veronika Burian
Font: Maiola (title font in above graphic)
Exhibit: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work (2019 Duke University Libraries, 2020 Grolier Club, New York)

Veronika Burian received her MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, UK, and is a type designer and the co-founder of the independent type foundry TypeTogether with José Scaglione. She is a founding member of  Alphabettes.org, a showcase for work and research on lettering, typography, and type design by women, and she lectures and teaches workshops around the world.