Joana Correia
Co-Founder at Nova Type Foundry
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolJoana Correia is a type designer, founder and creative director with over a decade of experience building commercially successful retail and multi-script fonts and leading design businesses from Porto to Vienna. She founded Nova Type Foundry and has collaborated with Google Fonts, Monotype and Indian Type Foundry, creating early Devanagari and Tamil families for web distribution and earning Premier Foundry status across major marketplaces. Trained as an architect and honed at the University of Reading (MA Type Design), she couples deep typographic craft with an MBA and executive coaching to bridge creative practice and business strategy. Joana has led remote teams and foundry partnerships, managed end-to-end font projects, and taught type design—skills she now applies to consulting, coaching and bespoke commissions. Fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish, she brings an international, multidisciplinary perspective that favors timeless, commercially viable design. Less obvious: she combines hands-on type production with formal training in leadership and coaching, making her equally at home shipping typefaces and optimizing creative organisations.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Project Management Project Management, Digital Project Management Project Management at CodeAcademyBachelor of Arts - BA Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts - BA Graphic Design at Escola Superior de Artes e DesignMaster of Architecture - MArch Architecture, Master of Architecture - MArch Architecture at Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do PortoaltMBAMaster of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General at Porto Business SchoolProfessional Certificate in Executive Coaching, Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching at Henley Business SchoolStrategic Leadership Programme Business Administration and Management General, Strategic Leadership Programme Business Administration and Management General at London Business SchoolMaster of Arts (MA) Type Design, Master of Arts (MA) Type Design at University of Reading
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian, German
Github Skills (13)
hebrew10
slugify10
webfonts10
cjk10
opentype-fonts10
typography9
google-fonts9
truetype9
variable-fonts9
opentype9
fonts9
typeface9
woff9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
joanacorreiatype/novatypefoundry
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
SorkinType/Merriweather
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Merriweather is a serif typeface. It is offered in Variable font format and static formats ( OTF, TTF WOFF etc).
Contributions:182 commits, 42 PRs, 148 pushes in 4 months
otfwebfontsvariable-fontsopentypetruetype
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