Morgane Pierson
Morgane Pierson is a freelance type designer specializing in ancient, disadvantaged, or non-encoded writing systems. After training as a graphic designer, she joined The Missing Scripts Project in 2017 as a student researcher at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy (France) where she also conducted a research about Nsibidi, picto-ideograms from Nigeria while working on the World’s Writing Systems poster and website.
In 2018, she designed the first digital font for Elymaic, an ancient writing system from present-day Iran, which is now published by Google. M. Pierson has been working in partnership with the National Library of France within the PIM project since 2019, and is now studying some of the earliest inscriptions written in Arabic.