is a multilingual type designer with years’ experience in culturally nuanced typography across Chinese, Latin, and Arabic scripts for global brands, with working knowledge of Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek and Thai.

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Roy Chan
Multilingual type designer with years’ experience in culturally nuanced typography across Chinese, Latin, and Arabic scripts for global brands, with working knowledge of Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek and Thai. Recent MA Typeface Design graduate from the University of Reading, specialising in font pairing solutions, script harmonisation and technical font engineering. Founder of Moodmen Font Company, leading the design and launch of original multi-script typefaces adopted across Asia. With a background in advertising and film distribution, I excel at localising typography across cultures, blending design craft with global brand insight to deliver clear, impactful typographic solutions.
Work experience
2026 -                Senior Creative Type Consultant | at Monotype
2019 - 2024       Head of Design | at Moodmen Font Company
2018 - 2019       Designer | at Bravos Pictures Limited
2017- 2018        Designer | ​​​​​​​at KKBOX Hong Kong Limited
Awards
2025                  CreateSmart Young Design Talent Award (£50K) (Link)
                          Merit | at Morisawa Type Design Competition (Link)
2023                  Silver | at Muse Creative Awards (Typefaces / Font System) (Link)
2015                  Bronze | at One Show China Youth Creative Competition (Advertising Innovative Category)
Conferences presentation
2025                  Typography Theory Practice | ​​​​​​​at Leeds Beckett University (Link)
                          TypeLab Asia | by Typographics (Link)
                          Type & Faces | at London (Link)
Education
2025                  ​​​​​​​MA Typeface Design, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Media Interview
2025                  Online Media | at Wanderer Hong Kong (Link)
                          Print Newspaper | Awarded a prestigious Japanese award 膺日大獎佳作 at Ming Pao (Link)
2023                  Radio | Talk with you 同理‧繼續傾 at RTHK2 FM 94.8 香港電台 (Link)
                          Online Media | Traditional Chinese Characters Made in HK 香港製造繁體字 at ACOO (Link)
                          Online Magazine | Falling in love with HK fonts 戀上香港字海 at JET Magazine HK (Link)
                          Print Magazine | New ‧ The Soul of Hong Kong Design 新‧港產設計魂 at Marie Clarie (Link)
2022                  Video | at Simon's Glocal Microcosm YouTube channel (Link)
                          Video | at Hungrytvhk YouTube channel (Link)
                          Radio | Zine at CR2 FM 90.3 叱咤903 (Link)
                          Print Magazine | Ones to Watch at Life Style Journal HKEJ (Link)
                          Online Newspaper | at Orange News (Link)
                          Video | Hong Kong Typography at The Initium (Link)
                          Online Newspaper | Defining character at Hong Kong Free Press (Link)
                          Online Media | People of Hong Kong at OLO Magazine  (Link)
2021                  Online Media | at p-articles (Link)
                          TV | This morning at RTHK (Link)
                          Video | at U Magazine Online (Link)
                          Print Newspaper | at Ming Pao (Link)
2020                  Radio | Begin with Music at CR1 FM 88.1 雷霆881
2019                  Print Magazine | Ones to Watch at Life Style Journal HKEJ
                          Print Magazine | at U Life + Weekend Magazine (Link)
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