Speaker Joana Ranito

Joana Ranito is a type designer and font engineer based in Porto, Portugal. After working as a web designer and front-end developer, Joana completed the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in 2017, where she developed a lasting interest in multi-script type design and Indic scripts. She went on to work with Dalton Maag as a font developer and team manager, before joining Universal Thirst in 2021, where she is specialising in engineering for Indic scripts and Bangla type design. Joana enjoys drawing from life, and finds these these skills useful in her multi-script design practice.