Saga Söderback
Typographic Engineer at Measure + Fit
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaga Söderback is a typographic engineer and self-described “font nerd” with over a decade of experience refining the invisible mechanics of type—hinting, outline cleanup, kerning, error checking and internationalization—for both foundry and product teams. Based in Providence, RI, she leads Measure + Fit, partnering with designers and engineers to adapt fonts to hardware constraints, visual identity, and cross‑platform rendering quirks. Her background blends formal study in typography, orthography and digital asset workflows from RIT with applied research on Native American/First Nations language preservation under mentor Chuck Bigelow. Known for doing the unglamorous “screwdriver work” that goes unnoticed when done right, she frees teams to focus on product while ensuring typography behaves predictably at scale. Practical, detail‑oriented, and fluent in the technical and cultural nuances of type, she excels at bridging design intent and engineering realities.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, New Media Publishing, Print Production, Typography, Arabic, BS, New Media Publishing, Print Production, Typography, Arabic at Rochester Institute of Technology
Russian, Arabic, French, German
Github Skills (64)
opentype10
fonts10
cjk10
quality-assurance10
duolingo10
font-size10
ufo10
phonetics10
woff10
hebrew10
truetype10
google-fonts10
google-docs9
python9
webfonts9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
laerm0/fonts
Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
Font files available from Google Fonts
Contributions:28 pushes, 38 branches in 2 years 4 months
google-fontsfontfontswoffwoff2
laerm0/Russolo
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
The Russolo typeface
Contributions:11 PRs, 111 pushes, 18 branches in 6 months
typeface
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