Viviana Monsalve
Tecnico En Atención A La Primera Infancia at Colegio san paulo
Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
Summary
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RockstarViviana Monsalve is a multidisciplinary professional blending seven years of hands-on early childhood care with active contributions to open-source typography and UI design. Based in Bucaramanga, Colombia, she works as a Técnico en Atención a la Primera Infancia while also engaging as a graphic and type designer on projects like Google Fonts and the well-known Space Grotesk family. Her open-source work spans build and release automation for font formats (TTF/OTF/WOFF2), STAT table integration, and crafting thoughtful font descriptions that highlight historical and linguistic nuances. This mix of caregiving and technical-creative practice reflects a rare combination of empathy-driven service and meticulous, tooling-focused design. She brings practical process improvement skills and a designer’s eye to both classroom environments and collaborative software projects.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
fonts10
scripting10
process-management10
automation10
script10
font-face10
variable-fonts10
sh10
automations10
build-process10
shell10
build-management10
typography10
user-interface9
ui-design9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
google/fonts
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:222 reviews, 319 commits, 881 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Viviana's commits primarily involve the creation and modification of font descriptions, specifically focusing on the design and stylistic features of various typefaces. Their contributions include adding textual descriptions of the fonts' visual characteristics, language support, and historical influences. These changes are indicative of work focused on the presentation and aesthetic details of the fonts within the Google Fonts repository.
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floriankarsten/space-grotesk
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
Space Grotesk: a proportional variant of the original fixed-width Space Mono family
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:42 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Viviana primarily focused on adjusting the build process for the font project. Their contributions involve modifying the `build.sh` script to generate different font file formats (TTF, OTF, WOFF2) and incorporating post-processing steps using tools like `gftools` and `fonttools`. The user also integrated the `spaceG_stat_table.py` script to create the STAT table and updated the build process for WOFF2 compression.
fixed-widthmonowidthproportionalfont
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