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Use Your Variable Fonts Better

Variable OpenType fonts were introduced five years ago. You can buy them today or download them for free or as part of a subscription. But where can we all use them? Are you a type designer who wants to test variable fonts in end-user applications? Would you like to start offering quality assurance services to font developers, and you’re looking for a way to start? Are you a graphic designer or typographer who wants to use variable fonts?

It’s time to take a look at apps and systems that support variable OpenType fonts! In this workshop-style session, Adam Twardoch will show how you can install and use variable fonts in different apps, both desktop-style apps, and apps that run on the web or on devices. Explore user interfaces that let you choose the right instance, apply typographic features, and input the right characters or glyphs.

This session will include presentations interspersed with time for questions and answers.

Duration: 2 hours

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.