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Open Fonts in 2022
special thanks to
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presented by
@andyfitz
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FONT
CHOICE
MATTERS
I
will
always
find
you
Parisienne
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I
will
always
find
you
I
will
always
find
you
Parisienne
Nosifer
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font files
it’s been wild
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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
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“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”
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a brief history of
digital typography
1968
Digiset 50T1 - CRT phototypesetting
Digi Grotesk
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Rudolph Hell
1978
TEX and METAFONT
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Donald Knuth
1984
Macintosh
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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
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%$‘’{en
2022
COLRv1 Gradient Vector Fonts
Custom Emoji !!!
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Today!
GitHub, GitLab
... and the wild west
fontlibrary.org
open-foundry.com
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velvetyne.fr
fonts.google.com
design-research.be
GET A FONT
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Runebender
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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
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github.com/googlefonts/Unified-Font-Repository
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Creating a typeface in 2022
Will hurt your feelings
and make your font great
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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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