Two more days until TYPO 2017 kicks off and hopefully Vorfreude has already kicked in. With Wanderlust as the theme, take a quick trip to the venue – on Berlin’s 100 bus, with a bit of sightseeing, art and design at every stop.
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By Tilmann Hielscher
Zu viele Termine? Zu viel auf dem Tisch? Schade! Für all diejenigen, die während der TYPO im Büro geblieben sind: Holt euch einen Kaffee, lehnt euch zurück und genießt ausgewählte Talks live auf eurem Bildschirm.
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You are too busy and can’t make it to the TYPO Talks this year? TYPO Berlin has a gift for you: Stream our selected talks live during the conference!
It can be a real challenge when you are in front of a flip chart and need to write legibly – but it’s actually possible to write beautifully even with the thickest of marker pens. Come to Neuland and find what you need.
During the three days of the second TYPO Labs conference 2017 the TYPO team covered all talks on the blog. But you cannot just read about the presentations and workshops, all talks are also available as video for you to rewatch whenever you fancy.
Lots of talks and workshops covered the topic of FontLab – four of them are summarized below. Sessions by Adam Twardoch, Yuri Yarmola and Thomas Phinney.
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By Luc(as) de Groot
The panel led by Adam Twardoch, featuring Matthew Rechs from Adobe Typekit, David Berlow of The Font Bureau, Ivo Gabrowitsch for Monotype and Alexandra Korolkova from Paratype set out to find some solutions for variable font issues that can’t be solved by sliders or dials – how will they affect the market for fonts? Despite differing opinions and viewpoints, the one thing all panelists seemed to agree on is that nothing is set in stone. Yet.
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By Tilmann Hielscher
Dominik Röttsches and Behdad Esfahbod – The guys from Google presented the improvements since their last presentation in ATypI Warsaw.
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By Roberto Arista
Yuri Yarmola and Thomas Phinney presented improvements to one of the key parts of the application. The sometimes funnily chaotic presentation showed that we’ll have a lot to look forward to in the final version.
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By Radek Sidun
While the major chunk of this years Typo Labs talks were dedicated to variable fonts, this last panel tried to look even further ahead. What are the issues imposed by the nearly universal model of boxed letters and how could they be overcome? Sahar Afshar, Rob McKaughan, Victor Gaultney, Toshi Omagari, John Hudson and Bianca Berning discussed in a panel led by Just van Rossum.
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By Tilmann Hielscher
How to deal with Chinese fonts for responsive design on different devices today? Chinese fonts normally have over 25.000 characters in a set of one font. By responsive design, the font should be changed diversely on the website from design to design and device to device. While Latin web font size has been achieved to be under 100 KB, Chinese font size is between 5 and 20 MB because of the amount of characters. Jeff Wu showed us his experience and how he solved these issues.
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By Toshiya Izumo
Amélie Bonet looked into the close correlation between production and design work, fundamental when creating Devanagari typefaces. Devanagari is most used in northern India, but proclaimed by the government as main script. A big decision, based on the fact that there are 12 other wide-spread languages, written in eight other scripts. But Devanagari is used to express the official language Hindi.
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By Rik Watkinson
John Hudson presented four interesting case studies where variable fonts technology can make a difference.
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By Roberto Arista
