Marianna Paszkowska (PL)

Marianna is a font engineer and type designer with many years of experience. She specialises in variable font technology.

Since 2021, she has been running her own company, Font Mavens, which offers consultancy services in project management, font engineering, type design, calligraphy and lettering. She currently works with Google, carrying out projects for Google Fonts and acting as project manager for the Google Sans Flex branding font. She regularly shares her expertise at conferences and workshops.

In 2016, she joined the team at the Monotype type foundry in Berlin, where she supported designers in the production of custom fonts for brands and fonts from the FontFont and Monotype collections, focusing primarily on variable fonts. She completed an internship at Dalton Maag in London, where she first became fascinated by font engineering.

Every font is an opinion

Typography is never neutral; it is part of a complex cultural ecosystem built on cycles of invention, imitation and reinforcement. Today, these cycles are increasingly dictated by reused data and algorithmic legacies. This talk investigates how systemic bias is “baked into” typographic environment and explores how designers can maintain agency and awareness within these automated feedback loops.