This is the story behind a pretty special navigation typeface designed for a city in the southwestern part of Russia, Belgorod (the name means White City) that has a long and dramatic history. Starting as a Slavic dwelling in the eighth century, and became an important fortress defending the state border from numerous enemy attacks… Continue reading An Incise for City Navigation
If you design type, you won’t want to miss Peter Nowell’s demo of Font Proofer—a powerful new tool for generating proofs. Font Proofer has an intuitive UI for creating an assortment of proof layouts, editing repetitive spacing strings, and exporting PDFs. It’s fast, highly customizable, and compatible with both Glyphs and RoboFont. While proofs are… Continue reading Font Proofer: A New Chapter in Proofing Type
Font engineering is a specific niche of the type design industry, and the lack of accessible documentation makes it hard for other industry professionals to understand what it is and what it is for. It is also not a topic usually taught during a type design education program; therefore, students are hardly aware of that… Continue reading Font Engineering: Defining a Profession
How can we teach our students to use typography if we cannot describe it correctly? What’s the point of type classification today? We need a new type classification system that is useful for everyone, whether amateurs, scholars, or professionals. This presentation is a type classification proposal for the era of variable fonts. The project was… Continue reading Type Classification: A New Approach
Following up on the previous year’s ATypI Tech Talks presentation, “Calibrating Type,” we explore the progress on our tooling to unfold the full potential of variable fonts that are based on parametric axes. There are two approaching angles; one is detailed typography and layout decisions by the designer, informed by tools for exploring the design… Continue reading Re: Calibrating Type
Michael Parson will present the work he has been conducting on his latest typeface. Koruption is the result of questions Parson had been considering about variable fonts. Rather than using this new technology to navigate with traditional features like weight, width, or slant, he wanted to explore how a regular typeface could be transformed into… Continue reading Exploring the Limits of Variable Fonts
Discussion and exploration of existing, new, and emerging tools, techniques, problems, and solutions for automatic kerning and spacing in font engineering. Panelists include Tim Ahrens, Jérémie Hornus, Igino Marini, and Toshi Omagari.
Variable fonts have rapidly been rising in popularity. So what should an ideal variable font specimen look like? Since the movable type revolution, the font catalog barely changed its appearance, not even with the transition to the virtual sphere. As variable fonts span complex design spaces, users need intuitive navigation tools to accompany them. Such… Continue reading Intuitive Design for Variable Font Specimens
Ever wondered how emoji are chosen and encoded? Curious about what people think when you send them a 🙂 vs. ❤️? In this session, we’ll talk all things emoji: the emoji selection process, the new emoji released in Unicode 15.0, research on how emoji are perceived, and more. For an emoji to be encoded, it… Continue reading What’s Up with Emoji?
This presentation is an extension of Jamie Chang’s Type and Media thesis project, Cleft Twinline. Chang will dive deeply into his innovative Twinline script that explores the boundaries of legibility, letter construction, and forms that variable fonts can take.