Speaker James Victor Gaultney

Victor Gaultney is a type designer and calligrapher with interests in legibility, diacritics, writing systems, and italics. As Senior Type Designer at SIL Global, he develops fonts for diverse and under-resourced language communities around the world. He teaches typeface design at the University of Reading, is a co-author of the SIL Open Font License, and led the team that developed ScriptSource (http://scriptsource.org). His most well-known typeface – Gentium – has been a winner in two international typeface design competitions and supports thousands of languages. His research on Designing Italics is the most extensive study of how designers approach the design of secondary italic typefaces.

He is also a musician, actor, and director.