Keya Vadgama

Designer, typographer, artist, writer.

Devoted romanticizer of letterforms.

Bay Area and Toronto

Keya Vadgama

Designer

Living in the Bay Area, but Toronto is home

Keya is a designer specializing in brand storytelling, marketing, and visual design for AI-native products with a background in typeface design and web design and development.

About me

Senior Brand Designer, Adobe

Senior Brand Designer, Adobe

Current role

I designed Mango, a reverse contrast text typeface, in Latin and Gujarati script. I released it on Future Fonts in 2024. You're reading it at 16px.

I designed Mango, a reverse contrast text typeface, in Latin and Gujarati script.

You’re reading it at 20px.

I designed Mango, a reverse contrast text typeface, in Latin and Gujarati script.


You’re reading it at 13px.

I recently contributed a design to the Letterform Archive's 10th anniversary campaign, 10x10x10.

In late 2025 I formalized my experimental South Asian art practice. I'm currently exploring representations of brownness, depicting stories from India, and making art that I want to hang in my home.

Rendering complex scripts in digital spaces:

Rendering complex scripts in digital spaces:

The development of layout and shaping technologies for complex script and language representation and consequent approaches to type design.

The development of layout and shaping technologies for complex script and language representation and consequent approaches to type design.

I always come back to letterforms

I always come back to letterforms

I always come back to letterforms

When I was 20 years old I became obsessed with learning everything about designing typefaces, especially for South Asian scripts. Typography has always been a way for me to connect with culture. And letterforms are something I always come back to in my work.

When I was 20 years old I became obsessed with learning everything about designing typefaces, especially for South Asian scripts. Typography has always been a way for me to connect with culture. And letterforms are something I always come back to in my work.

I write Type

of Culture

I write Type of Culture

I write Type

of Culture

A newsletter where I write about typography, design, and culture.

A newsletter where I write about typography, design, and culture.

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and

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with

OpenAI

and

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audio

with

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and

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with

AssemblyAI

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Perplexity

and

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and

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with

OpenAI

and

Anthropic

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audio

with

ElevenLabs

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and

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audio

with

AssemblyAI

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