Home / Panel

From Calligraphy to Pixels: Investigating Modern Arabic Type

This panel brings together a diverse group of practitioners and researchers with expertise in the Arabic writing system to discuss the transition of the script from its rich calligraphic heritage to contemporary typographic forms. The speakers will consider the concept of ‘modernity’ through the lens of the various cultural, economic, and political contexts unique to… Continue reading From Calligraphy to Pixels: Investigating Modern Arabic Type

Can Type Tools and Community Projects Be Sustainable?

Font Proofer creator Peter Nowell moderates. Type design tools—and other resources serving our small community—are rarely sustainable long-term projects for the people who make them. Whether it’s an app, plugin, script, or website, we’ve all experienced a project get abandoned, which has real impacts on type designers. As toolmakers and as a community, we can… Continue reading Can Type Tools and Community Projects Be Sustainable?

Open Source Pan-African* Variable Fonts

Myself (Mirko Velimirovic), Chisaokwu Joboson, Agyei Archer, Taurai Valerie Mtake, David Udoh, Eyiyemi Adegbite, Oluseyi Olusanya, Nate Willis, and Adam Yeo worked together in the fall of 2023 and the spring of 2024 to create several OFL fonts for Google Fonts. All of the designers involved were first time type designers.  We were overseen by… Continue reading Open Source Pan-African* Variable Fonts