Editorial Portrait photography for Onur Yazıcıgil. 2023.
Onur Yazıcıgil is an Istanbul-based typographer and design educator. Born in 1983, Onur spent his early years drawing letters in Dhahran and Ankara — early signs of a passion that led him to move to the States in 2006 to study the historical evolution of Latin sans-serif typefaces at Purdue University. After completing his MFA, he was recruited to teach at Sabancı University, where he designed his first text face, Duru Sans, which Google Fonts acquired. In addition to co-founding ISType in 2011, Onur served as a board member at ATypI from 2013-2019 and has lectured on numerous topics in the field of typography. In 2020, he completed his Ph.D. in the history of Ottoman typography at Mimar Sinan University. Beyond working as an Assistant Professor at Sabancı University, he is highly engaged in commissioned typeface and multi-script typography projects.
