UTW 2025

Session Host

Glenda Bellarosa

Glenda Bellarosa is font developer and font engineer. She also runs Maria Glenda Bellarosa LLC. Her clients include The Type Founders, Contrast Foundry, and Sharp Type. Glenda has been working in type for more than three decades. She started out hinting TrueType fonts at Monotype and Font Bureau. While at Monotype, she gained extensive knowledge in both writing OpenType code and the intricacies of complex South Asian scripts, Arabic, and symbolic scripts. Looking to help support the development and preservation of minority scripts and languages, Glenda joined Unicode in 2024. She is as passionate about producing functionally correct and efficient fonts as she is about doing the daily Wordle.

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