TYPO Labs: Don’t fall into the Cyrillic pit (Workshop)
Julia Sysmäläinen explains how to avoid typical Western mistakes when designing their Cyrillic character sets.
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Verena Gerlach
Julia Sysmäläinen explains how to avoid typical Western mistakes when designing their Cyrillic character sets.
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Verena Gerlach
Ikarus is the name of a digital outline format invented in the early 70s by Peter Karow. It was one of the earliest developments to describe complex character outlines digitally. A number of foundries started digitizing their type libraries using the Ikarus technology. Doing so required a software package for producing Ikarus fonts. Those software tools are still at the core of what today are known as DTL/URW++ font tools.
During the DTL/URW++ session at the TYPO Labs conference on Wednesday 11 May 2016, Lukas Schneider gave an interesting talk on the LS Cadencer and the related LS Cadenculator (batch) fitting/auto-spacing extensions he has written in Python for Glyphs and RoboFont.
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by Frank E. Blokland
Just in time for the TYPO Labs conference, type designer and software developer Georg Seifert and type designer Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer have finalized and uploaded the freshest, official version of their font editor Glyphs.
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by Verena Gerlach
During the TYPO Labs, Frederik Berlaen presented a new set of features shipped with the last Robofont version released just in time for TYPO Labs. There is brand new stuff under the hood and it is much faster.
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by Roberto Arista
In this presentation, Berlin-based type designer Ralph du Carrois presented a useful kerning plugin for Glyphs – one especially helpful for working with multiple master fonts.
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by Verena Gerlach
In this splitted talk, Just van Rossum introduced the technology of fontTools with TTX, its history, its development and finally its rescue: Behdad Esfahbod.
After John Hudson’s complex opening speech on The Universal Shaping Engine (USE), a new model for OpenType complex script handling, it was hands on at the FontLab VI session. A lot of “nerd speak” centered on how coordinates are floats, how to create smoothest possible connection between two curve segments and of course on new tools in the recently released update and how to use them.
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by Luc(as) de Groot, LucasFonts
Finally, it was really happening: TYPO Labs, a spinoff of TYPO Berlin, a conference only for font technology. Having been a quite frequent visitor of TYPO Berlin as a professional type designer and also type user, I found myself mostly attending these certain “special interest” presentations and lectures down in the basement of HKW.
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by Verena Gerlach
Auf der TYPO führen sie zu oft ein Schattendasein: Technische Font-Vorträge. Seit die von Linotype veranstaltete TypoTechnica nach 2007 nicht fortgesetzt wurde, vermisst die Fonttechnik-Szene ihr Labor. Wir möchten diese Lücke nun mit den TYPO Labs wieder schließen.