Category Technology
How does technology impact typography? What tools can we use to become better typographers? Learn more about how type and technology interact.
Type.World: A Vastly Improved User Experience for Working With Fonts
The open-source Type.World font installation technology is Yanone’s first attempt at providing professional tools and services to the naturally fragmented independent type publishing world. On the surface, Type.World is an end-user app for Mac and Windows that vastly improves the user experience of installing desktop fonts, sharing them, backing them up, and receiving font updates.… Continue reading Type.World: A Vastly Improved User Experience for Working With Fonts
A Comparison of Incremental Font Transfer to Existing Font Loading Techniques
Incremental font transfer is an upcoming technology that will allow users to download only the parts of the fonts they need while retaining full rendering fidelity. Garret Rieger and his collaborators are aiming to have this technology shipped in browsers so it can be used across the web to make font loading faster. To realize… Continue reading A Comparison of Incremental Font Transfer to Existing Font Loading Techniques
Some Insights on iKern
Igino Marini often talks about iKern with letter-fitting service customers. It’s easy, he says, because words are accompanied by facts: the fonts. And facts are worth more than words. These discussions, however, take place in a well-defined context. The client accepts a different way of working and is more interested in the results than in… Continue reading Some Insights on iKern
FontCreator Goes Variable
Since FontCreator is a Windows-only application, not all font designers know it has many powerful features. In this presentation, Erwin Denissen will demonstrate how to use the OpenType Designer, along with feature code generation, proofing, and feature code compilers. Within a few weeks, FontCreator 14 will be released with support for variable fonts. This session… Continue reading FontCreator Goes Variable
Emerging Variables in Typography for Augmented Reality
In this presentation, Niteesh Yadav will discuss the new variables and challenges emerging in augmented reality (AR). These range from past challenges like distance viewing to consuming information in a fast-paced environment. This presentation will offer a detailed overview of typography classification that Yadav created and presented during the TypeTech Meetup Munich in 2020 and… Continue reading Emerging Variables in Typography for Augmented Reality
Use Your Variable Fonts Better
Variable OpenType fonts were introduced five years ago. You can buy them today or download them for free or as part of a subscription. But where can we all use them? Are you a type designer who wants to test variable fonts in end-user applications? Would you like to start offering quality assurance services to… Continue reading Use Your Variable Fonts Better
Post-paper
Claus Eggers Sørensen delineates the emerging tropes of screen-based design, and how they differ from print design. A grand transition is taking place in publishing. The electronic distribution to – and the media consumption on – tablets, smartphones, e-readers, and desktop computers are replacing traditional printed matters. This fledgling screen-based publishing could be characterised as… Continue reading Post-paper
In conversation with Erik Spiekermann
“From Desktop to Digital, and Digital to Analog” An interview by Gloria Kondrup. ATypI Warsaw 2016. “From Desktop to Digital, and Digital to Analog” is an interview of Erik Spiekermann by accomplished letterpress printer Gloria Kondrup, Executive Director of the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography [HMCT]. After an extensive career as graphic designer, typeface designer,… Continue reading In conversation with Erik Spiekermann
The (potential) future of responsive typography
In this presentation Nick Sherman shares his views about the limitations of web typography. From the 2013 ATypI conference in Amsterdam. Some of the most fundamental and important elements of typography still can’t be addressed on the web of today. Even as the adoption of webfonts spreads, web typographers are stuck with low-level hacks and… Continue reading The (potential) future of responsive typography