Face/Interface 2025: Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction

The third international conference bringing together scholars, designers, engineers, and technologists to explore global type design, book design, interface design, and human-computer interaction.

Organized by SILICON: the Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media

Speakers & Titles (subject to change, more titles coming soon)*

* Note: This is NOT a schedule of conference proceedings. A conference schedule will be posted later this Winter.

• Adam Yeo (Keynote Speaker), The Future of Bété Script: Embracing Digital Inclusion
• Anshuman Pandey, Flowing in New Directions: Evolutions in the Representations of Kulitan
• Anushah Houssain, ISCII Imperialism
• Bridget Chase, Typotheque Indigenous North American Type Research
• Eason Lu, The Battle of the Gendered Script: Incorporating Nüshu into Unicode
• Frida Medrano, The Color Era of Variable Fonts
• Gerui Wang, Why Do AI Generated Texts and Images Erode Cultural Diversity?
• John Berry, Multilingual and Multiscript Book Design
• John Hudson, If Sanskrit, Then
• Kateryna Korolevtseva, Ukrainian Cyrillic: Research-Based Typeface Inspired by Cossack Baroque Heritage
• Kourosh Beigpour, From Script to Screen: The Digital Journey of the Laki Language
• Leonardo Vazquez, Wikitype: Collaborative, Multilingual, Classification System
• Liron Lavi Turkenich, Uncovering the Hidden History of Hebrew Type and Typography: Insights from the Archives
• Lisa Huang , Words of Type, and Building a Multilingual Encyclopedia for Typography
• Loic Marleix , Rediscovery and Digitalization of The Lovers Communication System
• Manuel López Rocha, Type Design for Mixe Language: Contemporary Tools and an Ancient Script Revival
• Mark Davis, Helena Aytenfisu, and Emiyare Cyril Ikwut-Ukwa, Enabling All Languages on Phones and Computers: Progress and Processes
• Mark Jamra and Neil Patel, Fonts and Utilities for Sunuwar
• Marta Bernstein, Researching Italian Type History: On Analog and Digital Archives, and a Scrappy Database
• Min-Young Kim, The Problems Type Face with VR Now
• Rafael Dietzsch, The Typography of Brazilian Indigenous Languages: Encodings, Fonts and Keyboards
• Sarmad Hussain, Universal Acceptance of Multilingual Domain Names for Customer Choice and Digital Inclusion
• Simon Charwey, Digitizing Dangme: Advancing African Language Preservation and Accessibility through Typographic Innovation
• Sina Ahmadi, Developing Language Technologies for Middle Eastern Languages
• Tawfik Jelassi, Harnessing Language Technologies to Promote Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Age
• Tex Texin, Creating a Fast Track for Digitizing Languages
• Toral Cowieson, Maroua Bezzaoui, and Samuel Minev Benzecry, Title TBA
   

Digital Equality Datathon Participants
 

• Craig Cummings (Digital Equality Datathon)
• Conrad Nied (Digital Equality Datathon)
• Issayas Tesfamariam (Digital Equality Datathon)
• Steven Loomis (Digital Equality Datathon)
• Tim Brookes (Digital Equality Datathon)