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.
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A panel discussion which took place in Barcelona last year has triggered a movement for a better user interface for type in Adobe applications. A new group of experts gathered as the Adobe Typography Customer Advisory Board and is ready to tackle the issue.
Atilla Koraps Vortrag klingt auf den ersten Blick super technisch, denn es geht um die Optimierung von Webfonts für unterschiedlichste Endgeräte und verschiedenster Gebrauchsbedingungen. Der Experte von Monotype verschafft uns einen Überblick über die Problematik und Optimierungsmöglichkeiten des Type Hintings und zeigt auf, welche Anforderungen es an die Schriften der Zukunft geben wird.
A fascinating journey into generative type design with Eike Dingler. Building letterforms by filling geometric shapes with geometric patterns.
A charismatic Lucas de Groot took the audience on a ride through his typographic universe, showing a lot of character as well as many many characters.
Peter Bil’ak has been a warmly welcomed guest at TYPO Berlin for many years. In this year’s presentation, he examines a rather unpopularly handled topic in the type industry: font licensing, and how we can get it out of its messy state.
In the Type Lab, Georg Seifert gives a brief introduction on how to create Apple Color Fonts with his type software Glyphs.
