In previous design system and platform projects for the states of Georgia and Rhode Island, color and layout have been the primary means of differentiation between sites—with typography being a consistent throughline that provides a stable foundation of familiarity for the citizens of those states. Presenter Jason Pamental, a principal designer at Chewy.com, says: “Creating… Continue reading Typographic Theming in Enterprise Design Systems
Nowadays, expanded knowledge about the design of typefaces is a good thing that has increased the number of enthusiastic designers. But the ease of publishing typefaces online has led to the loss of quality filters. This observation is more evident in scripts other than Latin, such as with Arabic fonts, where the lack of extensive… Continue reading Investigating the Impact of Audience Habits and Culture on Text Readability (About Arabic Text Typefaces)
In this session, Yoon Park will share his personal journey on Mixed Reality and experiments with holographic type in physical space using Microsoft HoloLens. This presentation includes design guidelines for type in Mixed Reality, and useful tools and resources for designers to get started in Mixed Reality/Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality.
To date, optically scaled variants of typefaces have always been created by eye; indeed, there is a widespread feeling that it is impossible to fully automate this process, as there are so many seemingly unrelated guidelines that need to be followed. In this session, Siva Kalyan will present a unified, automated approach to optically scaling… Continue reading Results of an Automated Approach to Optically Scaling Letterforms
Fonts cannot fix bugs in third-party software, but there are a few font engineering tricks that can help make your fonts work in the apps your clients care about. In this workshop, Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer will walk attendees through a possible workflow in Glyphs.
Curious about variable fonts, and wondering how you can use them in your WordPress site? Designers from the WordPress.com Special Projects team will go over best practices for implementing custom typography in block themes that use WordPress’s native block editor, Gutenberg. Showing examples from recent projects, Allan Cole and Christy Nyiri will demonstrate ways to responsively… Continue reading WordPress and Dynamic Fonts
Chinese characters have been written vertically in a top-to-bottom direction, with the columns continuing right to left, for more than three thousand years. But in modern times, this has gradually developed into a horizontal left-to-right direction due to the influence of letterpress printing and modernized language reform. Throughout the history of Chinese writing, there has… Continue reading Directionality of Chinese Characters
One of the early milestones within the Harfbuzz project’s Boring Expansion Spec is the specification of an “avar v2” table, which defines how axes can be composed from other axes. This takes Font Bureau’s Parametric Axes system and Underware’s HOI (Higher Order Interpolation for Variable Fonts) to the next level; Crossland and Penney will demonstrate… Continue reading Mom, You Sure Can Rehydrate a Pizza