Erik van Blokland’s presentation about a small experiment on digitisation of letterforms. This is a presentation about a small experiment on digitization of letterforms. A single scanned image was shared with type students, colleagues, professionals and interested designers. The analysis of the data brings some interesting results.
In this presentation, Jo De Baerdemaeker & Rainer Scheichelbauer explain the way traditional Mongolian and Balinese scripts work and which technical challenges they pose. The presentation explains the way traditional Mongolian and Balinese scripts work and which technical challenges they pose. It goes on to show the status quo of digital Mongolian and Balinese, from… Continue reading Making Mongolian & Balinese work in digital type
Presentation given by Cyrus Highsmith & David Jonathan Ross to ATypI in Amsterdam on 11 October 2013 Here’s the trick to designing web fonts: don’t do it. The successful type series of the future will be the ones that can move between media. A web font is just one variation within a larger series that… Continue reading Don’t design web fonts
Along with renovation the Rijksmuseum got a new identity designed by Irma Boom Office. Deciding for a predominantly typographical solution, Irma Boom invited Bold Monday (Paul van de Laan) to design a series of typefaces. From the 2013 ATypI conference in Amsterdam The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is the national museum for Dutch art and history,… Continue reading The new Rijksmuseum identity and typeface family
Victor Gaultney leads a discussion panel about open or collaborative font projects. From the 2013 ATypI conference in Amsterdam. “Over the last eight years, the number of open or collaborative font projects has gone from a small handful to over 600, and even major foundries such as Adobe are releasing fonts under open licenses. What… Continue reading Open and collaborative font design in a web fonts world