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Open Fonts in 2022
special thanks to
supported by
presented by
@andyfitz
@davelab6
FONT
CHOICE
MATTERS
I
will
always
find
you
Parisienne
I
will
always
find
you
I
will
always
find
you
Parisienne
Nosifer
font files
it’s been wild
1986 ~ 2006
trash commoditisation
2007-NOW...
community power
Nicolas Spalinger & Victor Gaultney
a brief history of typography
1040
Song Dynasties – First movable type
~1200s
1450
Metal type from Korea
is.gd/movabletype
Gutenburg Bible
early 1900's
Beatrice Warde
1760 – 1840
Industrial revolution
“People who love ideas
must have a love of words.
They will take a vivid interest in
the clothes that words wear”
Beatrice warde
AKA “Paul Beaujon”
a brief history of
digital typography
1968
Digiset 50T1 - CRT phototypesetting
Digi Grotesk
Rudolph Hell
1978
TEX and METAFONT
Donald Knuth
1984
Macintosh
Steve Jobs
1984
Postscript
(macOS1 Helvetica, Times, Courier)
John Warnock, Chuck Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft, Bill Paxton
1989
Truetype
(Win3 macOS 7 )
Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New
end of the cold war
Apple / Microsoft
1991
Globalisation push
Unicode Consortium
1996
OpenType
- Unicode Support
- Ligatures
- Small Caps
- Stylistic Alternates
Microsoft + Adobe
&
&
2009
Webfonts
Google Fonts Proposed
(launched following year)
Mozilla, Opera, W3C
2016
Variable Fonts
Harfbuzz (was pango) & Freetype
Behdad Esfahbod
%$‘’{en
2022
COLRv1 Gradient Vector Fonts
Custom Emoji !!!
Today!
GitHub, GitLab
... and the wild west
fontlibrary.org
open-foundry.com
velvetyne.fr
fonts.google.com
design-research.be
GET A FONT
Runebender
MFEK
darling of the day
old standard
+fontographer
hackable & modern
Free as in freedom
Emerging & Rusty
New and ambitious
PUT A FONT
designwithfontforge.com
CI CD
/
Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
Fontmake
googlefonts/fontmake
GF Tools
googlefonts/gftools
FontTools
fonttools/fonttools/tree/main/Snippets
googlefonts/fontbakery
github.com/googlefonts/Unified-Font-Repository
Creating a typeface in 2022
Will hurt your feelings
and make your font great
cool future, is cool
raphlinus.github.io
@raphlinus
penpot.app
new splines
ginger
jellyfish
goose
maracas
black bird
Unicode 15 Emoji
shaking face
flute
donkey
mooseface
hand fan
pea pod
wing
comb
lavender
+ more
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thank you
special thanks to
supported by
presented by
@andyfitz
@davelab6