Marianna Paszkowska, font developer at Monotype presented a playful Variable Fonts project that she had been working on together with quite a large team from the company. What at the first glance looked as “only” a fun project on Variable Fonts could also be seen as an approach to answer the question about how many choices should be actually given to the end user of design.
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By Verena Gerlach
Nicole Dotin introduced bash, a command language to be written in a shell script, run by Terminal. Exactly! The powerful tool, that can do terrible damage to your computer!
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By Rik Watkinson
Audience’s darlings Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer and Georg Seifert were announced as the two “Glyphs Guys”, the crowd giving a loud welcome applause. After a year with a lot having happened, the two founders of Glyphs once more announced a “world premier”.
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By Verena Gerlach
Robofont 2.0 is getting closer. Frederik Berlaen presented some of the new features that the UFO-based font editor will deliver to its users.
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By Roberto Arista
The dream is making a fully automated set of processes to create variable fonts. But the reality is a little bit tougher. Creating variable fonts from legacy families is a challenge today. How has Monotype solved this problem?
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By Toshiya Izumo
How do clients and end users measure quality? Jean Baptiste Levée’s talk is well-structured and clear and raises many honest points that go beyond slider movement and the role of a designer as a “problem-solver”.
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By Ferdinand Ulrich
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
Erik van Blokland – The Design Space notion is something you hear a lot if you study in typemedia or work into the UFO environment. Now, thanks to variable fonts, it is everywhere. Given that many tools other than Superpolator are using this concept, it is now necessary to exchange design space information across different applications.
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By Roberto Arista
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
Liron Lavi Turkenich discovered historical documents which prove that both ways, slanting back and forth, were always part of the hebrew writing system. Somehow none of them really made its way into common hebrew typography.
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By Rik Watkinson
»Oh crap. That’s my new job.«
Dan Rhatigan, giving the opening lecture of TypoLabs 17, addressed the hot topic that all of the 280 attendees interested the most straight away: Variable fonts!
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by Verena Gerlach
Those of you who have been to a TYPO Berlin conference before 2010 know, that one of the highlights after each conference was — when the DVD with selected TYPO talks came home by postal services worldwide. Since 2011 we don’t burn DVDs anymore; all TYPO talks (in Berlin, London, San Fran) that got recorded can be found in our TYPOtalks video archive. By now we have over 300 design talks online and each year we add around 30 new videos. 300×45 minutes = 225 hours of video material. Because this is a lot of time you’d need to watch through this, we now start to bring you selected content. Every month (until we get tired in doing so) we will select 5 talks under different topics. Hope you like it. Off we go – with the hidden gems. TYPO speakers, that are not so well-known but truly suprized us.
