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Liron Lavi Turkenich discovered historical documents which prove that both ways, slanting back and forth, were always part of the hebrew writing system.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
The 1st TYPO Labs font technology conference hosted in the heart of Kreuzberg, Berlin, is dedicated to the new developments in font software creation, techniques, solutions and standards. Watch the short trailer!
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.
