Meir Sadan
Designer Developer at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolMeir Sadan is a Designer-Developer with over a decade of experience blending type design, typographic and information design with web design and development from his base in Tel Aviv. He founded Oketz, a Hebrew type foundry, co-founded Typespotting and several startups, and has led freelance design-development projects since 2007. As a teacher at Bezalel, Minshar and previously at Tel Aviv University, he translates practice into pedagogy, running workshops and lectures that bridge craft and code. His academic formation includes postgraduate type design studies at Cooper Union and an MRes in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, reflecting deep technical and research-led expertise in type. Known for pairing meticulous typographic sensibility with pragmatic web technologies, he often works at the intersection of visual systems and interactive implementation. An uncommon strength is his sustained commitment to Hebrew type production, positioning him as a go-to practitioner for culturally rooted typographic work.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design, Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtB.Des, Visual Communication, B.Des, Visual Communication at Bezalel Academy of Art and DesignMRes, Typeface design, MRes, Typeface design at University of ReadingType Design, Type Design at ISIA UrbinoGraphic Design, Graphic Design at School of Visual Arts
Github Skills (17)
opentype10
fonts10
cjk10
google-font10
hebrew10
google-fonts10
frank9
typeface8
typography5
latin5
duolingo5
testing4
ufo3
truetype3
variable-fonts3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fontef/frankruhllibre
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
An open source version of the classic Hebrew Frank Rühl typeface
Contributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 years 11 months
frankhebrewtypeface
OdedEzer/heebo
Mar 2016 - Oct 2020
Heebo open source Hebrew font, designed by Oded Ezer
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 4 years 7 months
hebrewfontgoogle-fontscjk
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