Erin McLaughlin is a typeface designer at Hoefler & Frere-Jones in New York City. A Milwaukee native, she received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design and an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK. She was the recipient of the 2011 SoTA Catalyst award for her Devanagari/Latin typeface, “Katari,” and has spoken about Indic typography at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India.