Marek Z. Jeziorek is a native of Poland but has been on vacation since 1976 in the USA. He is still enjoying his vacation time in California :-) His educational background includes a degree in Mathematics and Informatics (aka Comp. Sci.) from Warsaw University, Poland, and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. At this time, Jeziorek works as a Technical Program Manager at Google LLC. He got involved with Noto fonts by accident. Around 2015, Google management needed somebody to manage Noto’s font pipeline building project. They asked Jeziorek. He became a project manager for the font building software. His role expanded over time, and now he manages the whole spectrum of Noto fonts and tools.
The Noto project is the most ambitious font project of all time, aiming to continually support 100 percent of all Unicode characters each year with fully functional fonts. Today, Noto offers fonts for 146 scripts and over 800 languages, and is opening the door to reading and writing for minority language speakers. During the last… Continue reading Noto Fonts: Preserving Endangered Languages
Making fonts available for new Unicode scripts is of great value to minority language communities. Adding them to mobile devices is especially important, enabling the development of keyboards/input methods by vendors and third parties. Such tools encourage the use of these languages both in native communities and in the diaspora of groups like the Rohingya… Continue reading Delivering Fonts for New Unicode Scripts: Noto and Its Impact