Sahar Afshar is an independent type designer and researcher who divides her time between her practice, consultation, teaching and research, particularly in relation to the Arabic script and the various regions and cultures that use this writing system.

Wei Jin Darryl Lim is an independent book and print historian. His research remit focuses on the global and transregional networks of lithography and typography in the Malay world during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Vaibhav Singh is an independent researcher, typographer, and type designer. Previously a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy and chairman of the Printing Historical Society, he is the editor and publisher of Contextual Alternate, a journal of technology, design and history.