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In retrospect, Dyana sees that she was destined to be a type designer. Since she was old enough to read, she used to find letters among the tiles in the bathroom floors. She would pore over her mother’s font specimen books from the photolettering days when she could have been watching TV. When she wasn’t paying attention in class, she often doodled words rather than images, paying special attention to their forms. When she was a freshman at the Rhode Island School of Design, pondering majoring in film, she thought she would try a class in typography. On the first day, she got her hands on The Elements of Typographic Style and it was all over from there. Now as a member of Team Font Bureau she is most proud to be on the Hero Wall of a world-renowned newspaper. She collects letters, as well as things that look like letters, that she finds in random places. She is probably the only person in America, perhaps even the world, who thoroughly enjoys kerning. When she is not thinking about type, she is napping, breakdancing, or debating her coworkers about the existence of free will. | 