Aoife Mooney
Professor at Crafting Type
Akron, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAoife Mooney is a design professor and typeface specialist with 11 years of higher-education experience and a 20-year freelance practice focused on logotype, identity, publication and information design. She combines rigorous, methodical type design work—credited on Google Webfonts’ BioRhyme and contributions to Mallory—with a hands-on studio practice that keeps teaching deeply practice-led. At Kent State she has progressed from assistant to full professor while coordinating ISTD’s North America student assessment, launching the program locally and expanding professional pathways for students. Known for making complex information legible and identities adaptable, she is equally committed to design as an inclusive, educational force for social change. Her background blends studio production, type development at top foundries, and a pragmatic focus on craft and pedagogy.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Typeface Design, MA, Typeface Design at University of ReadingBA Visual Communications, Graphic Design, BA Visual Communications, Graphic Design at Technological University Dublin
french, irish
Github Skills (10)
foundry10
opentype6
truetype6
fonts4
woff3
google-fonts3
google-docs2
kannada1
latin1
documentation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aoifemooney/makingbiorhyme
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Slab serif loosely based on Boston Breton and a sample 'R' from a Conner's type foundry specimen
Contributions:1 release, 8725 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year
foundryspecimen
aoifemooney/google-type-proofs
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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