What am I?

Bianca Berning is a font engineer and type designer and heads up the Skills and Process department for font foundry Dalton Maag. She is an active member of Alphabettes, ATypI, and the Unicode Consortium, and she coordinates a mentorship program with the aim of helping students and professional newcomers immerse themselves in the type industry.

David Jonathan Ross draws letters of all shapes and sizes for custom and retail typeface designs. A native of Los Angeles, he began drawing typefaces at Hampshire College and in 2007 joined the Font Bureau, where he honed his Bézier-wrangling skills. Now he publishes visually imaginative and technically advanced designs at his own foundry, including Fit, Bungee, Gimlet, and Input. You’ll find him in Western Massachusetts with his partner Emily and their two dogs, Sophie and Lily.

Indra Kupferschmid is a freelance typographer and professor at HBKsaar, University of Arts Saarbrücken, Germany. Fueled by specimen books, She is occupied with type around the clock and in all its incarnations—web fonts, bitmap fonts, other fonts, type history, research, marketing, DIN committees, design work, and any combination of these. Kupferschmid is co-author of “Helvetica Forever” by Lars Müller Publishers and other typographic reference books, consults for the type and design industry and everyone who needs help choosing fonts, writes for magazines, books, and websites, and stirs things up at Alphabettes alongside juggling her own small to ultra-large ventures.