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Date Monday, May 3rd 2021

Make Your Variable Fonts Better

Adam Twardoch

In this presentation, Adam Twardoch will demonstrate how to use FontLab 7 and several other applications to check variable font projects. All popular font editors now have some mechanisms for designing variable fonts and exporting them as variable OpenType fonts and static instances. Type developers may use FontLab or any other font editor for their variable designs—in any case, it’s useful to test and check how a font performs in several apps. The more axes, masters, and glyphs a project has, the more care needed to go into testing and proofing.

On Wednesday, May 5, join Twardoch in a workshop session, where he will show noteworthy end-user apps in which variable fonts can be tested.

Speaker

Adam Twardoch

Designer Widget Co

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.