In his keynote John Hudson, Type Designer and Co-founder of Tiro Typeworks Ltd., provided us with interesting perspectives upon the Nirmala UI project. Under the title “Constrained. Unconstrained. Variable.” He reflected upon circumstances, presenting the unique challenges of each design. Here are the most important steps on that journey.
TYPO Labs 2018 zostało otwarte wystąpieniem Gerry’ego Leonidasa, nauczyciela i badacza typografii na uniwersytecie w Reading. Opowiedział o biznesowych i projektowych aspektach krojów Variable Fonts.
The opening talk of TYPO Labs 2018 came from Gerry Leonidas with a reality check on the intersection of business and design aspects of Variable Fonts. He teaches and researches typography and typeface design at the University of Reading, UK.
This hands-on session will focus on the (post)production process of (variable) fonts using FoundryMaster and DTL OTMaster. FoundryMaster, developed at URW for macOS, Windows and Linux, is the successor of DTL FontMaster, of which the first edition was released at the ATypI Copenhagen conference back in 2001. Both applications find their origin in the IKARUS system from Dr. Peter Karow, who stood at the cradle of digital typography roughly 40 years ago. If everything goes according to plan, the first retail edition of FoundryMaster will be released at TYPO Labs 2018.
DTL OTMaster is the font utility that allows users to visually edit the contents of tables in TrueType and OpenType fonts. The first edition of OTM, released in 2009, was received enthusiastically in the field. Adobe’s Dr. Ken Lunde, for example, wrote: ‘[…] I would like to state here that DTL OTMaster is a fabulous tool. The best way for me to characterize it is that it gives me the power of AFDKO’ “spot” tool, and that of TTX, but wrapped up in nice GUI.’ A lot of functionality has been added since then and OTM is in use by type designers and font producers all over the world. If everything goes according to plan, version 7 of OTMaster, which contains extensive support for the OpenType Font Variations format, will be released at TYPO Labs 2018.
FoundryMaster and OTMaster will be demonstrated and discussed by Jürgen Willrodt (URW) and Frank E. Blokland (DTL).
Bring your computer.
Lüdwig Übele stellt uns die vielfältigen Arbeiten des zu unrecht etwas in Vergessenheit geratenen Schriftgestalters Georg Salden vor, erläutert dessen Haltung, Arbeitsweise und Ideen, die immer noch relevant sind.
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von Tilmann Hielscher
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Born in 1954, Siebert studied physics in Frankfurt. After receiving his degree in 1985, he worked as a science journalist, wrote his first book and moved from Frankfurt to Hamburg. There he co-founded the graphics magazine PAGE in 1986, and ran it as editor-in-chief until 1991, when he moved to Berlin. In Berlin, Siebert initially worked for two years for FSI FontShop International, where he published the first FontFonts, FUSE and the FontBook. In 1993, he took over marketing for FontShop Deutschland and in 1996, organised the first TYPO design conference; he started the Fontblog in 2004, and then in 2011, Creative Morning Berlin, as well as the TYPO offshoots in London and San Francisco. TYPO Days followed a year later. Since the autumn of 2014, he has been responsible for the German-language marketing for Monotype GmbH and initiated TYPO Labs and Brand Days.
Wir haben „Fragenziehen“ mit dem Typografen, Schriftforscher und TYPO Sprecher Ferdinand Ulrich gespielt. Das Spiel geht einfach: Ferdinand zieht einen Begriff, legt ihn neben die Karte „Schrift“ und antwortet, was im dazu einfällt. Assoziativ und schnell.
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von Lukas Horn
We played »Fragenziehen« (drawing questions) with Maria Doreuli, type designer from Russia and founder of the Contrast Foundry. The game is simple: Maria draws a term, puts it next to the card “writing” and answers what she thinks of it. Associative and fast.
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by Lukas Horn
Mike Duggan will build on his workshop from last year’s TYPOLabs to describe how to hint variable fonts using the latest version of VTT.
Computers use a pen to draw letters, too. The Pen object from the Python FontTools and RoboFab is a unique concept, which, once you get a grip on it, opens up a vast number of possibilites for your type design projects, from outline manipulation to error checking, from glyph effects to parametric design helpers, from serious to fun. I will introduce the Pen concept, show you how to work with Pens, and explain some examples from my daily work. Some prior Python knowledge is required.
Code examples and pdf: github.com/jenskutilek/TypoLabs2016
It’s fair to say that web fonts have become the mainstream technology on the web, but it didn’t happen overnight and not without effort. This presentation will offer some historical perspectives on how and why things happened, how technical developments influenced the adoption of custom fonts on the web and in digital ads, and how the web fonts adoption defined the new features of the Web Open Font Format 2.0 (WOFF2) technology. We will discuss what makes WOFF2 such an efficient web font compression format, how content-aware data transforms contribute to overall increase in compression efficiency, why WOFF2 can still be considered a lossless compression (even though the input and output font files may not be a binary match) and how the WOFF2 adoption is going to improve the web user experience.
Presentation: typotalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/WOFF2-TYPO_Labs-canned.pdf
