Speaker Victor Gaultney

Victor Gaultney is a type designer and calligrapher with interests in legibility, diacritics, non-Latin scripts, and italics. As Senior Type Designer at SIL International, Gaultney develops fonts for minority language groups around the world. Gaultney 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. Gaultney is also a musician, actor, and director.