Session Host

Arnab Chakraborty

Arnab Chakraborty is a type and graphic designer from India. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture in Chandigarh and practised for several years before moving into type design full-time. In 2025, he graduated with distinction from EsadType (École supérieure d’art et design d’Amiens), earning a postgraduate diploma in type design and a master’s in graphic design, specialising in multiscript type with a focus on Bengali.

Arnab is currently based in Nancy, France, where he is a researcher at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, working on the Missing Scripts project. His research centers on the typographic history of South Asian scripts and the vernacular forms that shape them.

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