Just like a lot of other typographic phenomena, ligatures have their own haters and fanbase. Marko Jovanovac is part of the later. In his workshop he strikes a blow for unconventional connections, not only bringing letters, but also a lot of people together.
Tobias Frere-Jones has spent the last 25 years crafting letterforms, setting type and agonising over the smallest of details. He’s designed some of the most widely used typefaces of our time, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney, Gotham, Surveyor, Tungsten, Retina and more recently, Mallory. With the ever-changing nature of web, he talked through renewed strategies to improve legibility for digital experiences.
With Alef, Michal Sahar and Danny Meirav officially ended the monocracy of Arial, what was once the only web font for Hebrew. At TYPO Berlin, Michal provided the audience with broad insights into the design research for Fedra Serif Hebrew, a case study for matchmaking multi-script type design.
Matteo Bologna, founding partner and principal of Mucca Design in New York, takes the TYPO audience on a humorous ride through his life, work, and the lessons learned along the way. Always oscillating between self-praise and self-irony, he wins over the audience with his tongue-in-cheek presentation.
Berlin, drop that beat! San Fransisco based lettering artist Erik Marinovich explains five chapters of Hip Hop that influence not only his lettering, but his work and life in general.
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
War die Futura wirklich die Schrift der damaligen Zeit? Wieviel haben Erbar, Koch und Renner von Johnston übernommen? Und wer war Lorenz Reinhard Spitzenpfeil? Diesen und einigen anderen, nur scheinbar hinlänglich erforschten, Fragen geht Sven Fuchs in seiner typografischen Zeitreise durch das 20. Jahrhunderts nach.
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.
Im ICE von Stuttgart nach Berlin haben wir gestern Jochen Rädeker befragt. Der Gründer und Manager der Designagentur Strichpunkt wird uns an diesem Donnerstag um 19:00 Uhr auf der TYPO Berlin in seinem Talk “Hello future – goodbye design! Wie die Zukunft Gestalt annimmt“ darüber sprechen, wie sich die Rolle des Designers in der Zukunft definiert und erklären, warum er Designer immer noch für den großartigsten Beruf der Welt hält.
