Santiago Orozco is a type designer and engineer based in Monterrey, the capital and largest city of the (hot) northeastern state of Nuevo León, México. With a background in Computer Science from his studies at the University of Monterrey (UDEM), Orozco found himself at the intersection of design and technology, attending graphic design classes while doing engineering. In 2009, Orozco founded Typemade Foundry/Studio, and since then, has developed custom type for brands, corporations, and other foundries. He started collaborating with Font Bureau and currently manages, design, and engineer fonts for Font Bureau and its clients. Typemade specializes in type design, font production, and type technology. Orozco is also the founder of the international conference TMX—Type, Tech, and Design, which has been presented annually in México since 2015. Orozco’s vision is to have a place for the ones who keep things moving forward in the fields of type, technology, and design.
The Font Bureau was commissioned by Google Fonts in 2016 with the purpose of showcasing what the new variable font technology could do with two new fonts: Decovar Alpha and Amstelvar Alpha. While the former showed how more than a dozen axes of stylistic variations can be used (and abused) for display typography, the latter… Continue reading Amstelvar and Roboto Flex: Unprecedented Flexibility in Text Typography
Bété Type Design is research by Adam Yeo that aims to promote the Bété script through design and graphic design projects by addressing how to apply it in modern graphic design directions. This project aims mainly to provide designers with a methodological and theoretical basis for integrating the Bété script into modern graphic design. The… Continue reading Amstelvar and Roboto Flex: Unprecedented Flexibility in Text Typography
Working on truly advanced and inclusive typography could not begin until variation technology was implemented five years ago. With the introduction of variable fonts, significant gains were made, from compression and animation to smoother weight, width, and optical size transitions. Many interesting font products have been introduced since the launch of variable fonts, but few… Continue reading Calibrating Type