Conference ATypI Tech Talks 2021
Mark your calendars for May 3–5, 2021, and join us as we launch of the ATypI Tech Talks. Held online this year, this font tech-focused conference will be part of our in-person and hybrid events going forward.
| 17:00–18:00 |
Delivering Fonts for New Unicode Scripts: Noto and Its ImpactMaking fonts available for new Unicode scripts is of great value to minority language communities. Adding them to mobile devices is especially important, enabling the development of keyboards/input methods by vendors and third parties. Such tools encourage the use of these languages both in native communities and in the diaspora of groups like the Rohingya… Continue reading Delivering Fonts for New Unicode Scripts: Noto and Its Impact |
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| 16:00–17:00 |
Generative FontsLuke Prowse will present on GenerativeFonts.xyz, a collection of free-to-use, free-to-modify fonts that were generated by code as well as the scripts themselves. |
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| 15:00–16:00 |
Creating an Odia FontThe Odia language is spoken within the region of Eastern India, Odisha. It is associated with a writing system also called Odia. Although Odia is used by 35 million speakers/writers, the development of its fonts has been rather limited. For instance, many Odia fonts do not support Unicode nor stable OpenType features. Amélie Bonet’s presentation… Continue reading Creating an Odia Font |
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| 12:00–15:00 |
Thinking Outside the VoxA group of experts in typography, typeface design, multi-script design, printing history, and design education will explore the past, present, and (hopefully bright) future of typeface classification. The group will cast a critical eye on the history of typeface classification, the problems and limitations surrounding existing models, the importance of categorization and taxonomy to design… Continue reading Thinking Outside the Vox |
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| 11:00–12:00 |
Mass-Driver Workshop: Tools for Working With FontsFrom calligraphy materials to font editors, customizing and extending off-the-shelf tools—and creating entirely new ones—is often key to the process of type design. It’s not uncommon for type designers to have sizeable collections of scripts and self-made digital tools to assist in their workflows. In 2020, Netherlands-based type foundry Mass-Driver released two of these in-house… Continue reading Mass-Driver Workshop: Tools for Working With Fonts |
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| 10:00–11:00 |
Variable First, Variable Everything“How are variable fonts built? Can we build them in a better way? And is there more that we could do with variable fonts than we’re currently doing? In this presentation, Simon Cozens will first give a tour of the existing open-source font toolchain and demonstrate a new method of producing variable fonts which is… Continue reading Variable First, Variable Everything |
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| 09:00–11:00 |
Variable Font Hinting in Microsoft Visual TrueType (VTT)Variable fonts have been adopted by all major browsers and are fast entering the mainstream as the newest exciting advance for fonts on the web. This workshop, led by hinting expert Michael Duggan, will teach the basics of setting up and hinting variable fonts in the latest version of Microsoft Visual TrueType (VTT). Attendees will… Continue reading Variable Font Hinting in Microsoft Visual TrueType (VTT) |
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| 09:00–10:00 |
FitFont Technology: Multi-Axis Adjustment and Combining Different Scripts“This presentation by Yui Yoshitomi will outline the features and ongoing development of the evolving FitFont technology. FitFont was developed for multi-axis adjustment and to facilitate the combining of different scripts. Since the 2012 announcement at ATypI Hong Kong about the technology’s early development stages as Adjustable Font with seamless weight control function, Type Project… Continue reading FitFont Technology: Multi-Axis Adjustment and Combining Different Scripts |
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| 18:00–19:00 |
Advancing Color Formats in OpenType“Multiple color font formats were introduced in OpenType almost ten years ago, but none of the formats have been widely embraced and adopted because each one has trade-offs. Bitmaps provide rich presentation capabilities but lead to large font files. OT-SVG is a vector format with rich capabilities but leads to large font files and requires… Continue reading Advancing Color Formats in OpenType |
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| 17:00–18:00 |
Deficiencies of Handling Arabic Script in OpenType (and Some Possible Solutions)“The introduction of OpenType font handling technology in 1996 fostered significant improvements in processing and modeling complex scripts in digital media. However, there are still deficiencies in handling the Arabic script. Major issues currently involve justification and tatweel/kashida/extension treatments, differentiating anchors of dots and marks in certain programming situations, and a variety of problems relating… Continue reading Deficiencies of Handling Arabic Script in OpenType (and Some Possible Solutions) |
Nadine Chahine 
Simon Cozens 
Peter Constable