Lisa Huang
Designer
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarLisa Huang is a Paris-based designer and type specialist with seven years' experience crafting Latin and Hanzi scripts for digital use. She blends aesthetic sensitivity with scripting and automation skills, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like the Recursive variable font family used for code and UI. Her work spans glyph design, TTX file refinement, and Python/RoboFont scripting to automate glyph workflows and build code ligatures, plus DrawBot specimens and animations that bridge design and developer needs. Fluent in French and Chinese, she brings cross-cultural typographic insight that informs multilingual type systems. Practical, detail-oriented, and technically fluent, she thrives at the intersection of visual design and font engineering.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
automation10
automations10
font-face10
fonts10
fonttools10
python10
scripting10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
arrowtype/recursive
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Recursive Mono & Sans is a variable font family for code & UI
Role in this project:
Font Designer & Scripting/Automation Specialist
Font Designer & Scripting/Automation SpecialistContributions:290 commits, 68 PRs, 215 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Lisa contributed significantly to the development of the "Recursive" font family. Their work includes modifying font files (TTX files) and scripts, indicating an involvement in the font's construction and optimization. The user created and modified scripts, likely using Python and the RoboFont framework, to automate tasks like glyph copying, name changes, and the construction of code ligatures. Additionally, the user created and used DrawBot scripts for generating specimen pages and animations.
google-fontsmonofonttype-designvariable-font
notofonts/noto-sans-nushu
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Nüshu script enters the Noto Sans font family...
Contributions:1 release, 49 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
local-dialectsnushuwomennoto-sanswriting-systems
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