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Chiachi Chao

Chiachi Chao (b. 1988) received a BFA in Communication Design from Shih-chien University in Taipei in 2013. He worked as an independent graphic designer in Taiwan and later joined an international tech company as a systems designer. From 2019 to 2021, he completed the MA program in Type Design at ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne. While studying at ECAL (Lausanne, Switzerland), he designed the dynamic script typeface Hemon (2020), which was inspired by the abstract paintings of Dutch artist Sedje Hémon. In 2021, he published the art nouveau typeface Bezier at ECAL Typefaces.

Chiachi's diploma project, the elegant modern typeface Kleisch, won a Swiss Design Award in 2023 and was released as a family of three static styles and a variable version at Lineto in late 2024. The quasi-Baroque letterforms are designed to match various Chinese/Japanese/Korean Ming typefaces in a number of features as well as visual parameters, reversing the usual process in Western type design that tries to fit other scripts to the presumed templates of the Latin alphabet. He redrew LL Le Corbusier, a family of four stencil fonts re-launched in spring 2024.

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Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Art Nouveau typefaces ⦿ Type design in Taiwan ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿