Introducing FontLab VI

Adam Twardoch is Director of Products of FontLab. He has also worked as a font consultant for MyFonts, Monotype, Google, Adobe, and many independent font vendors, specializing in font technology, multilingual typography, CSS webfonts, Unicode, and OpenType. Twardoch has been a core member of the initiatives that created the OpenType Font Variations and OpenType SVG color font specifications. He co-designed several type families, including Lato (by Łukasz Dziedzic) and Milka (by Botio Nikoltchev). Twardoch regularly teaches workshops in font creation, and served on the board of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) for many years. He lives and works in Warsaw and Berlin.

Thomas Phinney is a type designer and former CEO of FontLab. In the 2000s, Phinney helped drive the adoption of OpenType within Adobe and in the marketplace. Phinney developed character set standards for Adobe, and designed the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic typefaces hypatia sans, cristoforo and science gothic. Phinney has four patents and a master’s degree in printing and typography from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he completed his thesis on technical challenges in multiple master font technology. Phinney has been on the board of ATypI since 2004. Blog: www.thomasphinney.com

Yuri Yarmola is Vice President Research & Development of FontLab. He began dabbling with fonts in 1989, and designed the first of many font editors and utilities in 1991. He designed and led development of all versions of FontLab and FontLab Studio, as well as a number of other applications published by Fontlab Ltd. He lives and works in St Petersburg, Russia. In 2007, Yuri received the 2nd Linotype Font Technology Award.