This presentation of the Microsoft employees was two-fold: Peter Constable gave insight on the development of the font variations specification, how its implementation is progressing and shared how the spec might evolve in the future. Rob McKaughn shared some experimental ideas on how variable fonts might act responsively in every sense of the word: as way to assist readability, perhaps also to those with reading disorders.

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By Tilmann Hielscher

According to Frank E. Blokland’s PhD research (Leiden University, 2016) Gutenberg and his contemporaries developed a standardized and even unitized system for the production of Textura type, which was extrapolated for the production of roman type in Renaissance Italy.

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By Ferdinand Ulrich