Description: Sahar Afshar is a Typeface designer and researcher from Iran. Since 2015, she has been working as a font developer with various clients and foundries.
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She works as a Font Developer at Dalton Maag , taking various roles in projects for companies like Airbnb , Jacobs , Google (Noto Emoji) , Onitsuka Tiger , and DHL . She also worked on the design and engineering of Aktiv Grotesk Arabic , a variable font with a weight axis that ranges from Hairline to Black. Sometimes she takes on a more engineering-focused role, like for the reverse engineering of .mti to afdko for the Google Noto Syriac fonts, or work for clients like Amazon. Prior to joining Dalton Maag,
Outside of her practical work, she is working to complete her PhD on the history of Gurmukhi type that was designed and developed by British printers from the early 19th century. She is doing this at Birmingham City University under the supervision of Dr Caroline Archer-Parré and Dr Fiona Ross, with a full STEAM scholarship from BCU university. An article containing one chapter of her thesis, The Gurmukhi Type of Oxford University Press has already been published by the Midland History journal. She is also
From her first presentation at ATypI 2017 in Montreal, she has continued to share what she knows about the various aspects of type, print history, and calligraphy whenever possible. This includes TypoLabs 2017 ( Liberating Digital Type from the Metal Rectangle panel); Centre for Printing History & Culture Annual Symposium (Punjabi printing: a historical analysis of design, production and consumption from 1800); Type Directors Club Judges Night 2018 ( Sours, flips, and fancies ); TypoLabs 2018 ( On extending