AmΓ©lie Bonet is a type designer and font engineer based in Berlin. She specialises in multiscript typefaces, placing particular focus on complex scripts such as Devanagari, Arabic, Oriya and Bengali. She has led type projects for international clients, working both for agencies as well as in-house at Dalton Maag and Monotype. She holds a Master's degree in Type Design from the University of Reading and in CrΓ©ation Typographique from l'Γcole Estienne. She also obtained a Post-Diploma in Γdition-Presse from l'Γcole des Arts DΓ©coratifs.
Since 2019, she has worked independently as a freelance type designer, consultant and font engineer, collaborating with designers and type foundries such as Google, Lineto, Pangram Pangram, The Northern Block and Swiss Typefaces. She is in touch with art schools and design studios, where she acts as part of a jury member or as a workshop instructor. She is also part of the Alphabettes and Type Crit Crew networks. Her work in type design and font production has been recognised with awards at the Granshan and European Design competitions.
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SERVICES
- Bespoke (Multiscript) Type Design
- Type Design Expansion
- Mastering & Font Production
- Custom Logo and Lettering
- Consultancy
- Anatole Type
- Brody Associates
- Charlotte Rohde
- Google Fonts
- Lineto
- Pangram Pangram
- Raoul Gottschling
- Swiss Typefaces
- Tappin Gofton (β )
- The Northern Block
- URW++ (β )
- 2021 β ATYPI All Over, online
>>>>>> Creating an Odia Font - 2020 β TypeWknd [with Sol Matas], online
>>>>>> How we developed our first Odia font family - 2018 β Kerning, Faenza
>>>>>> Extension, Expansion, Variation - 2018 β Printemps de la Typograhie, Paris
- 2017 β TypoLABS, Berlin
- 2016 β TypoLABS, Berlin
- 2012 β ATypI [with Bruno Maag], Hong Kong
- 2012 β Symbiosis School of Design, Pune
- 2011 β Lettres type, Nancy
- 2010 β ICTVC [with Irene Vlachou], Nicosia
- 2025 β Graphic LanguagesβA Visual Guide to the Worldβs Writing Systems by O. HΓ€usle (Slanted Publishers)
- 2025 β Loew Next Devanagari interview on The Northern Block blog
- 2023 β Neue Montreal Monospace interview for Pangram Papers
- 2020 β Typodarium with Noto Sans Oriya (Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz)
- 2020 β How many female type designers do you know? by Y. Popova (Onomatopee Projects)
- 2011 β Lettres type exhibition in Nancy
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CLIENTS
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SELECTED TALKS
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FEATURES
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FONT IN USE
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