It’s been five years since OpenType 1.8 and variable fonts were announced at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. Peter Constable will take a look at where this innovation in type is at after five years: What’s worked well? What are ongoing challenges? Has it been a success? This session will also consider some future innovations in variable fonts that might be worth exploring.
Date
Friday, December 3rd 2021
Happy Fifth Anniversary, Variable Fonts

Speaker
Peter Constable
Peter Constable is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft for Typography and Globalization Standards. He maintains the OpenType specification for Microsoft and, in 2016, led the cross-industry initiative to develop the variable font extensions to OpenType. Constable is also active in Unicode and ISO standards related to character and language coding.