Southern Asia, home of a quarter of the world’s population is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. Typotheque has worked on a series of fonts to support all official languages of Southern Asia, and conducted research to understand the local reading preferences, and develop the fonts that reflect the current orthography changes.
Designing Fonts for 2 Billion People

Héctor Mangas
Hector Mangas Afonso is a young researcher from Tenerife, Spain, with a background in cognitive psychology. After completing his masters in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Hector started conducting research with Typotheque that has ranged from studies about readers' attitudes toward text to individual understanding of certain glyphs.
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Peter Biľak
Peter Biľak works in the field of editorial, graphic, and type design. In 1999, he started Typotheque type foundry. In 2000, together with Stuart Bailey, he co-founded the art and design journal Dot Dot Dot. In 2012, Peter started “Works That Work,” a magazine of unexpected creativity. In 2015, together with Andrej Krátky, he co-founded Fontstand.com, a font rental platform. Peter teaches in the Type & Media postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague.
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