Romina Hernández
Type designer, graphics programmer, font engineer and art director.
Ro is a type designer, programmer, letterer and occasional woodworker from México City.
She holds a bachelor’s in Industrial Design, and is a graduate of the TypeMedia program in The Hague, Netherlands. She's also very much in the autistic spectrum, so she’s self-taught in almost everything else.
She now spends her days developing typefaces and design tools with her team at Tortilla.studio. Ro is a font nerd, a proudly trans feminist, an avid tea drinker, a cat lady and she sometimes enjoys writing about herself in the third person.
Education 2016-17 —KABK. den Haag, Netherlands, Type]Media
2015— centro. cdmx, Especialidad en Innovación Tipográfica
2012— Ibero. cdmx, Industrial Design
Speaking, publishing
2024 — Letrástica 5 opening Panel: Learning, teaching and practicing Type in México.
2024 — Typelab Americas: Animating PufflingKit
2024 — Type Electives Lecture Series: Font Engineering and QA
2024 — type.today: The art of mastering
2024 — Practica Type: Panel on Type Design Careers
2023 — Letterform Archive, Letterform Lectures: What we talk About when we talk about Rótulos.
2022— Typelab Americas: Producción de fuentes 101. ¿Con qué se come el font engineering?
2019 — Letrástica 3: What my Neurotic Dog can teach us about type design.
2018 — Tipografía México 3: Invited Speaker.
Teaching2024, 2025 — TypeWest Online
+ Co-teacher, term 2, online Cohort.
2020-2024— Tortilla.studio
+ type design, and lettering workshops and consulting
2019 — Letrástica 4
+ mini workshop: Python for Type designers
2019-2020 — centro,
+ Especialidad en Innovación Tipográfica, Taller de Itálicas y textura tipográfíca.
2015 — Ibero CDMX. Co-teacher of Type design with Armando Pineda.
Others2022 — Letrástica 5
+ Simultaneous translation. In person.
2022 — TDC: Multilingüe
+ Simultaneous translation, online
2022 — Letrástica 4
+ Simultaneous translation, in person
2021 — Typographics
+ Simultaneous translation, online