In this presentation, Jo De Baerdemaeker & Rainer Scheichelbauer explain the way traditional Mongolian and Balinese scripts work and which technical challenges they pose.
The presentation explains the way traditional Mongolian and Balinese scripts work and which technical challenges they pose. It goes on to show the status quo of digital Mongolian and Balinese, from font production to application implementation, explains their shortcomings, and provides possible solutions involving recent type design software and technology. And for the first time, a working Balinese OpenType font will be presented to the public.
Jo De Baerdemaeker is an independent Belgian typeface designer, font developer, and postdoctoral researcher. He holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Reading, UK. His interests are designing, researching, and writing about world script typefaces (particularly Tibetan, Lantsa, Mongolian, and Javanese) and multilingual typography. De Baerdemaeker is a regular speaker at international conferences and curates events and exhibitions centered on type and typography. In 2012, he founded Studio Type in Antwerp and currently teaches at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent. He is the author of “Tibetan Typeforms.”
Rainer Erich (‘Eric’) Scheichelbauer was born in Vienna. A trained photographer, Eric holds both a philosophy and a Dutch studies degree. He creates typefaces, works as a digital punchcutter for other type designers, and gives type design workshops on a regular basis. Since he has joined the Glyphs team in 2012, he has been writing articles, tutorials, and Python scripts, as well as the blog and the handbook. He lives and works in Vienna, where he runs his type studio Schriftlabor.
Jo De Baerdemaeker