Rosalie Wagner
Type Designer, Font Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRosalie Wagner is a Berlin-based French type designer and font engineer with 11 years of experience creating typefaces for print and screen, as well as advising on type-driven projects like books, logos and signage. She blends hands-on design with engineering rigor—handling outline corrections, hinting, spacing/kerning, OpenType features and build automation—to take fonts from concept through production. Rosalie has contributed build automation and variable font tooling to high-profile open-source projects such as JetBrains Mono and improved metadata and designer profiles across the Google Fonts repository. Her background includes post-master research in type design from ANRT and a DNSEP in graphic design, informing a practice that straddles research, craft and tooling. She also brings teaching and accessibility experience, having tutored students with dyslexia and taught art, which shapes her attention to legibility and usable typography. Expect a collaborator who combines meticulous technical workflows with a designer’s sensitivity to form and context.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BTS, Communication visuelle opt. graphisme, édition, publicité, BTS, Communication visuelle opt. graphisme, édition, publicité at La Martinière-Diderot, LyonPost-master, Type design research, Post-master, Type design research at ANRT (Atelier national de recherche typographique)DNSEP (maste II), Graphic Design, Félicitations du jury, DNSEP (maste II), Graphic Design, Félicitations du jury at Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon
French, English, Italian
Github Skills (11)
sh10
script10
font-face10
shell10
fonts10
font-rendering10
typography10
scripting10
build-automation10
documentation10
text-processing10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
google/fonts
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:283 reviews, 452 commits, 1659 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rosalie's contributions primarily involve modifications to font metadata and descriptions within the Google Fonts repository. They updated descriptions for numerous font families, including revisions to the source URLs and inclusion of information about design and development credits, highlighting the fonts' features and intended uses. Moreover, the user added or modified designer profiles, showcasing their knowledge of the fonts, their design goals, and related projects.
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JetBrains/JetBrainsMono
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:35 commits, 10 PRs, 36 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rosalie's contributions center around automating the build process for the JetBrains Mono font. They modified a `build.sh` script to generate various font formats and then introduced a `build-vf.sh` script focusing on variable font generation. Their work includes integrating tools like `fontmake` and `gftools` for font processing and optimization. The changes focus on streamlining the build steps and adapting it for the specific requirements of the font project.
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