Type tools & type users … FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high-quality output ( glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well.
Type tools & type users … John Hudson will demonstrate the limitations of the popular Type-1 fonts format and explain the benefits of the OpenType format to font users and developers.The emphasis of the presentation will be on OpenType Layout features and lookups, and how they interract to provide a flexible model for ‘glyph processing’.… Continue reading Opentype: Why & How
The 2015 ATypI conference in São Paulo, Brazil included an “OpenType, Open Mic” session where people across the industry presented their wishlist for OpenType 2.0, followed by a panel discussion (LWN coverage). For the next year, a number of private, invite-only meetings were held by the implementers of industry-leading OpenType software systems—both “font reader” rendering… Continue reading OpenType 2.0 Panel, 2023 Edition
FontLab’s Adam, Thomas and Yuri introduce FontLab VI. Years in the making, and a complete rewrite from scratch, FontLab VI combines the latest font technologies and a new cross-platform user interface. FontLab VI introduces dozens of innovations to type design, especially in vector drawing and editing. The new app has been built with active input… Continue reading Introducing FontLab VI
If you design type, you won’t want to miss Peter Nowell’s demo of Font Proofer—a powerful new tool for generating proofs. Font Proofer has an intuitive UI for creating an assortment of proof layouts, editing repetitive spacing strings, and exporting PDFs. It’s fast, highly customizable, and compatible with both Glyphs and RoboFont. While proofs are… Continue reading Font Proofer: A New Chapter in Proofing Type
Font engineering is a specific niche of the type design industry, and the lack of accessible documentation makes it hard for other industry professionals to understand what it is and what it is for. It is also not a topic usually taught during a type design education program; therefore, students are hardly aware of that… Continue reading Font Engineering: Defining a Profession
Michael Parson will present the work he has been conducting on his latest typeface. Koruption is the result of questions Parson had been considering about variable fonts. Rather than using this new technology to navigate with traditional features like weight, width, or slant, he wanted to explore how a regular typeface could be transformed into… Continue reading Exploring the Limits of Variable Fonts
Discussion and exploration of existing, new, and emerging tools, techniques, problems, and solutions for automatic kerning and spacing in font engineering. Panelists include Tim Ahrens, Jérémie Hornus, Igino Marini, and Toshi Omagari.
Hibizcus is a suite of free and open-source font proofing and debugging tools for South Asian and South East Asian languages. Most of the languages in these regions are written in a script that belongs to the Brahmic family, in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as a unit. This differs from a complete alphabetic script… Continue reading Proofing and Debugging Fonts with Hibizcus
One of the early milestones within the Harfbuzz project’s Boring Expansion Spec is the specification of an “avar v2” table, which defines how axes can be composed from other axes. This takes Font Bureau’s Parametric Axes system and Underware’s HOI (Higher Order Interpolation for Variable Fonts) to the next level; Crossland and Penney will demonstrate… Continue reading Mom, You Sure Can Rehydrate a Pizza