Speaker Hao-Mei Wang

Hao-Mei Wang, based in Taipei, Taiwan, is a designer, project manager, and lecturer at justfont. She led the development of jf 7000, a practical and flexible open-source Traditional Chinese character set. Beyond her technical contributions, she actively promotes typography and font design knowledge to the young design community in Taiwan through social media, lectures, and workshops. She has managed and served as the lead designer for several influential font marketing and community projects, including Elffont, Type Characters Series, Kamabit, and Loksin. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in design at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on the legibility of Chinese characters and the quantitative analysis of design specifications, which she presented at an international academic conference in 2023. In her spare time, she shares Chinese character lettering on her Instagram account, @howmay__ which has attracted over 23K followers.