Vassil Kateliev
Founder, Lead Developer at Karandash Type & Graphic Foundry
Bulgaria
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Top SchoolVassil Kateliev is a founder and lead developer with nine years of focused experience at the intersection of type design and tooling, leading TypeRig while running Karandash Type & Graphic Foundry. He combines hands-on typeface design and engineering with Python-driven tools for typographic workflows, bringing a rare blend of creative sensibility and developer discipline. His background in industrial design and telecommunications informs pragmatic, system-level thinking about layout, identity and brand work beyond pure aesthetics. Vassil’s early agency and freelance experience sharpened his client-facing craft across large branding programs and cultural events, and he continuously bridges visual practice with automation to streamline type production. Based in Bulgaria, he is known for translating typographic nuance into reproducible digital processes that scale creative output.
9 years of coding experience
master, Industrial design, master, Industrial design at Technical University of Varna
Bulgarian, German, English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
opentype10
fonts10
python10
ufo10
variable-fonts10
science10
google-fonts10
read-write9
font-size7
truetype6
fortran6
numpy6
json6
f2py6
fonttools2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kateliev/vfjLib
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
A low-level VFJ reader and writer.
Contributions:26 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
fontlabfontsjsonpythonpython27
kateliev/TypeRig-Icons
May 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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