Contact notes:
Inquiries regarding the SBL Hebrew font should be directed
to the SBL Font users group.
SBL
Font User Group
Personnel
John Hudson
John Hudson is a type
designer and co-founder of Tiro Typeworks. Since 1997, he has specialised
in the design and development of custom fonts for multilingual computing.
In addition to his type design activities, John writes and lectures on font
technology issues. He lives on Gabriola Island, British Columbia.
Contact
John Hudson
Ross Mills
Ross Mills is a type
designer and co-founder of Tiro Typeworks. He has been invloved in the
design and production of multilingual and specialist typefaces for Microsoft
Corp., Linotype Library, Apple Computer, the Government of Nunavut and
others. He lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia.
Contact
Ross Mills
Associates
Tim Holloway
After
graduating in 1974, Tim trained
in type drawing with the Linotype group. He worked with Matthew Carter on
Greek fonts and freelanced for design groups in the UK and Holland drawing
logos and corporate alphabets. With Fiona Ross he co-designed Linotype Bengali
and contributed to the development of Linotype’s Urdu nastaliq fonts and system. Following the design of Karim (Linotype), in
traditional naskh style, he has experimented with a monolinear Arabic, Markazi
(selected amongst the winners of the bukva:raz! competition).
Tim’s cooperation with Tiro began
on the project to update and extend the Linotype Yakout series.
Gerry
Leonidas
Gerry teaches typography and typeface
design in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, England.
He is a practising type designer of Greek and Latin typefaces, and a regular
consultant on Greek typography and type design. He has published book reviews
and occasional articles on typography, and has translated works from English
to Greek. Between 1986 and 1994 he was a book and magazine editor/production
manager in Greece. He holds a BSc in Business Administration, a Diploma
in Journalism, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Typography & Graphic Communication;
he is constantly completing a PhD on the relationship of the design processes
of Greek and Latin digital typefaces.
Associates
Fiona Ross
Fiona specializes in non-Latin type design and typography.
From 1978 to 1989 she worked for Linotype Limited (U.K), being responsible
for the design of
Linotype's non-Latin fonts and typesetting schemes, notably those using Arabic,
Indic, and Thai scripts. Since 1989 Fiona has worked as a consultant: clients
include Apple Computers, Linotype Library, and Quark. As a type designer
she has recently worked in collaboration with Tim Holloway and John Hudson.
Fiona
is also a part-time lecturer in the Department of Typography and Graphic
Communication at the University of Reading (U.K.), and is the author of one
book and numerous
articles.
Fiona holds a BA (Hons) in German; a Postgraduate Diploma in Sanskrit and
Pali; and a PhD in Indian Palaeography from SOAS (London University). She
is a member of the Association Typographique International and a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts.
Maxim Zhukov
Maxim Zhukov’s
main occupation is multilingual typography and cross-cultural design. For
many years he served as a typographic co-ordinator to the United Nations.
Zhukov is involved in typeface design, consulting for many individual designers
and type foundries. He taught typographic design at his alma mater, Moscow
Printing Institute, and now teaches at Parsons School of Design and Cooper
Union in New York. Maxim Zhukov writes on typography and type design. He
is a member of a number of Russian and American professional societies and
associations. He is a member of the Board of ATypI, and the country delegate
for Russia.
