Chantra is an entrepreneur. Since childhood, she has launched and managed companies for her family’s business and later worked in branding in New York City, where she lived for 10 years. In 2015, she co-founded Sharp Type, where she handles strategy, brand management, graphic design, sales, and communication, and has been featured in many publications for her involvement in the industry, including Communication Arts, Monocle, Backstage Talks, It’s Nice That, and more. Chantra is the founder of The Malee Scholarship, a nonprofit offering financial support and mentorship to women from underrepresented backgrounds entering the type industry.

Lucas has been designing award-winning original typefaces for over a decade. In addition to designing his own typefaces, Sharp serves as the type director of the foundry, offering guidance, art direction, and mentorship to the type design team. Sharp has designed typefaces for major brands and organizations, including Samsung, Dropbox, and Pentagram. Sharp’s typefaces have been honored by the TDC, the European Design Awards, and more. He co-founded Sharp Type in 2015.

My-Lan has been passionate about drawing funky letters since before she knew it existed as a design discipline. She graduated from ÉSAD Amiens with a BFA in Graphic Design and from the École Estienne in Paris with an MFA in Type Design. She collaborated with Coppers and Brasses before joining Sharp Type in March 2019 as the foundry’s Senior Type Designer. Her specialties are calligraphic and experimental styles.

Calvin is a typeface designer with a BA in Visual Communication from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading. After an enriching internship at Apple Inc.'s Type team, he officially joined Sharp Type in March 2019, where he currently serves as the Technical Director. He concentrates on multilingual type design, typography, and font technology, demonstrating a keen interest in the nuances of the field.

Theodore is an expert generalist who connects the dots within Sharp Type through copywriting, content curation, and creative strategy. He attended UCLA before moving to New York City, where he worked for a decade in the restaurant industry as a hospitality and beverage director. In 2021, Theodore joined Sharp Type, where he currently serves as Content Director. He also moonlights as a music supervisor in the fashion industry and is a longtime resident DJ at The Lot Radio.

Léna is a type designer, and her work is influenced by her affection towards calligraphy, stone carving, handmade letters and vernacular typefaces. She attended École Estienne in Paris for Type Design and then obtained her MA at Type and Media at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2021. She collaborated with type foundries TyPetr and Coppers and Brasses prior to joining Sharp Type as a type designer in September 2023.