Tharique Azeez
Type Designer & Font Engineer at Tatype
Sri Lanka
Summary
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Top SchoolTharique Azeez is a Type Designer and Font Engineer with 13 years’ experience crafting geometrically precise, aesthetically driven typefaces and OpenType font systems for Tamil and Latin scripts. As founder-level talent at Tatype and co-founder/operations lead at Pebbles Academy, he blends hands-on type design with product-minded visual and editorial design. His background in web engineering and CMS development informs practical, screen-first font engineering and multilingual typography solutions. A long-time TED translator and former language coordinator, he brings deep experience in cross-cultural communication and clear information architecture. Currently based in Sri Lanka and studying law alongside design, he pairs creative direction with a disciplined, code-aware approach to typography that aims to broaden who gets represented by type.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Laws - LLB, Law, Bachelor of Laws - LLB, Law at Open University of Sri LankaZahira College, KalmunaiB.Sc (Hons), Technology and e-Commerce, B.Sc (Hons), Technology and e-Commerce at University of East LondonRoyal College, Colombo 7Royal College Colombo
English, Tamil, Sinhalese
Github Skills (44)
opentype10
fonts10
latin10
fontforge10
woff10
truetype10
google-fonts10
ime9
cjk9
font-editor9
templeos9
typeface9
opentype-fonts9
gnu9
tamil9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tatype/tt
Aug 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
enathu/neythal-font
Jun 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 release, 52 commits, 37 pushes in 1 year 11 months
handwritingfontfeeling
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