Jovica Veljović

Type designer Jovica Veljovic is a long-time student and teacher of type design, calligraphy and typography; he is well-versed in historical Latinate forms as well as a modern explorer of the alphabetic line as a basis for art.

Veljovic received his master's degree in calligraphy, lettering and graphic at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He lives in Germany where he was teaching for 28 years type design, calligraphy and typography at the HAW Hamburg, and presents workshops throughout Europe and the United States.

In addition to designing the type families Ex Ponto, Sava and Silentium for Adobe, Veljovic has designed typefaces for the International Typeface Corporation (ITC Veljovic, ITC New Veljovic, ITC Esprit, ITC New Esprit and ITC Gamma). He has also served as a consultant on Cyrillic type designs for Apple Computer, Inc., Linotype-Hell AG, and URW Software & Type.