Kalapi Gajjar
Co-founder And Creative Director
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKalapi Gajjar is a typeface designer and font engineer with a decade of experience shaping multilingual typography and digital type systems. As co-founder and Creative Director of Universal Thirst since 2016, he blends design, informatics, and linguistics to create bespoke type solutions for diverse scripts. His background includes production-grade font engineering at Dalton Maag and non-Latin typeface design at Monotype, grounding his studio work in rigorous technical practice. Trained with an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading and a BVA from M.S. University Baroda, he pairs formal typographic scholarship with hands-on creative leadership. Based in Vancouver, he brings a rare combination of craft-level drawing sensibility and script-aware engineering that supports complex multilingual projects. Colleagues describe him as half of the creative force behind Universal Thirst, equally fluent in aesthetic concept and the low-level mechanics of font technology.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts in Typeface Design, Master of Arts in Typeface Design at The University of ReadingC.B.S.E., C.B.S.E. at Navrachana Senior Secondary SchoolBachelor of Visual Art, Bachelor of Visual Art at Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University Baroda
English, Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (57)
opentype10
font-editor10
fonts10
cjk10
quality-assurance10
ufo10
font-family10
phonetics10
woff10
truetype10
gnu10
google-fonts10
python9
variable-fonts9
command-line-tool9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
googlefonts/anaheimFont
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Anaheim by Vernon Adams
Contributions:8 commits in 3 months
kalapi/fonts
Jul 2016 - Mar 2025
Font files available from Google Fonts
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 9 months
fontfontsfont-filesgoogle-fonts
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