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Dr Elena Papassissa is a London-based type designer with specialist expertise in Armenian script, and a graphic designer. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with international type foundries, type designers, and graphic design studios in London. Since October 2018 she has been working as a Visiting Practitioner and Associate Lecturer at the UAL, Camberwell, teaching on the type design course for second year BA students in Graphic Design. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Reading in 2019 with a thesis on ‘Convention, traditionalism, Latinisation, and modernity in Armenian typefaces across type-making technologies from 1512 to 1977’. Elena is a member of the ATypI and the AGBU Young Professional (YP), a non-profit organisation involved in promoting worldwide the Armenian identity and heritage.
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Noto Armenian

Design of the Noto Armenian for the Google Noto font family

In 2014 Monotype US commissioned me to review and redesign the Noto Sans & Serif Armenian Regular and Bold .
Noto supports 800 languages and 100 scripts in up to eight different weights. The aim of the project was to create a unified visual system.
Before I could get into design I had to review the existing version, analyse and evaluate its design, and consider previous critical remarks and comments.

I felt that the Noto Armenian font should be in between tradition and modernity, while being authentic, natural looking, but also a contemporary typeface.
Noto Armenian is a typeface that stands on its own design merit and gives to readers a contemporary, but authentic texture in which they can recognise their own identity. A typeface that can be used proudly, because it is not a reminiscence of an adaptation of any existing Latin typeface, but an independent font that works well alongside Latin.

Noto Sans Armenian Regular and Bold (v.2.x)
Noto Serif Armenian Regular and Bold
(v.2.x) are released by Google.

The Noto Armenian for the Google Noto font family was featured in the Monotype Recorder ‘No more Tofu’. The Monotype Studio, London, UK. Issue Five/Summer 2017, in pages 37–50
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