In this open session, Adam, Thomas and Yuri will walk you through technical details of FontLab VI, from smart contour operations with the fractional coordinate system, metrics and kerning handling with groups and slanted sidebearings, all the way to the vastly expanded font format support and the new Python API. The FontLab team will also welcome questions in an open Q&A.
Thomas Phinney
Typographer / Vice President @ FontLab (Portland, Oregon)
Thomas Phinney is President of FontLab. Previously he worked at Extensis (web fonts and font management tools) and Adobe (as product manager for global fonts and typography). Thomas is also a type designer, teacher, writer, and consultant on fonts and typography. He teaches type design with Crafting Type and has…
Yuri Yarmola
(St. Petersburg)
Yuri Yarmola is as Vice President Research & Development of FontLab. He began dabbling with fonts in 1989, and designed the first of many font editors and utilities in 1991. He designed and led development of all versions of FontLab and FontLab Studio, as well as a number of other…
Adam Twardoch
Director of Products, FontLab (Berlin)
Adam Twardoch is Director of Products of FontLab. He also has been working as a font consultant for MyFonts, Monotype, Google, Adobe and many independent font vendors, specializing in font technology, multilingual typography, CSS webfonts, Unicode and OpenType. Adam has been a core member of the initiatives that created the…
