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Date Wednesday, October 28th 2026
Venue University of the Arts Sharjah
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From Pen to Type and Back: Calligraphy, Typography, and Revival

This moderated roundtable explores how calligraphic traditions across different cultures have shaped, informed, and been transformed by typography. Moving across historical and contemporary contexts, the discussion considers how letterforms transition between the hand, print, mechanical reproduction, and digital environments, and how these shifts affect visual language, cultural continuity, and design. The panel approaches this relationship… Continue reading From Pen to Type and Back: Calligraphy, Typography, and Revival

Date Wednesday, May 27th 2026
Venue Stanford University / Green Screen
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Industry Classification and its Educational Echo. Searchability and sense-making

Typeface classification today is shaped less by formal standards than by the practical needs of foundries, distributors, and digital platforms. While much discussion critiques the limitations of the Vox–ATypI system, less attention has been given to articulating what a future-oriented classification framework must actually address—particularly within a commercial ecosystem defined by searchability, tagging systems, and… Continue reading Industry Classification and its Educational Echo. Searchability and sense-making

Date Friday, April 25th 2025
Venue Royal Danish Academy / Stage One
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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

Date Friday, April 25th 2025
Venue Royal Danish Academy / Stage Two
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Designing & building typefaces

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?

Date Friday, April 25th 2025
Venue Royal Danish Academy / Stage One
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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