TYPO Labs 2016 Berlin, May 10-11

Adam Twardoch
Adam Twardoch Posts: 515
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This year, the annual highlight of European graphic design conferences, TYPO Berlin, gets a very special prelude for type designers and font makers: TYPO Labs. 

If you’d like to know more about complex scripts, parametric fonts, hinting, accelerated kerning, and OpenType font engineering — on 10–11 May, the Forum Factory located at the heart of Berlin’s hip Kreuzberg district will host a two-day event that is all about making fonts well and fit for the future. 

The FontLab team will be there, showcasing FontLab VI and running in-depth workshop sessions dedicated to our new powerful font editor. Plus the people behind RoboFont, MutatorMath, Glyphs, VTT, ttfautohint, fontTools and many more! 

For the price of 300€ (or 240€ for a group of 3 tickets), you’ll get two days packed with typo-technical content presented by the finest line-up of geeks & experts. And then, you can stick around to enjoy the big TYPO Berlin, which is worthwhile! 

The full schedule of the event is at: http://typotalks.com/labs/schedule/

Comments

  • LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
    LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland Posts: 723
    A truly excellent list of type-related tools! However, I have a vague feeling that there is missing at least a masterly one. As soon as it pops up in my grey cells, I will let you know. ;-)
  • LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
    LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland Posts: 723
    We were kindly offered a three-hours session at the TYPO Labs font technology conference that we gladly accepted, of course! We (Jürgen Willrodt, Axel Stoltenberg, Michael Hoffmann, and yours truly) will focus mainly on OTM, but also demonstrate and discuss the successor of FontMaster (optional names are GlyphMaster and UFOMaster [Unified FontMaster]).

    If there are any specific wishes for our Berlin session, or in case you have suggestions, please let me know.
  • Adam Twardoch
    Adam Twardoch Posts: 515
    Excellent! 
  • LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
    LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland Posts: 723


    Ready for Berlin! Let’s Baroque-’n-roll (I prefer Bach and his contemporaries over Jagger and consorts, you know) then!


  • Stephen Coles
    Stephen Coles Posts: 1,008
    When was the last time the makers of 5 different font editors were presenting at the same conference?
  • Richard Fink
    Richard Fink Posts: 165
    An exceptional line up. Is there going to be any video available after? 
  • Paul van der Laan
    Paul van der Laan Posts: 242
    edited May 2016
    Stephen Coles said:
    When was the last time the makers of 5 different font editors were presenting at the same conference?
    Robothon?
  • Simon Cozens
    Simon Cozens Posts: 752
    I did recently joke to Adam that we should do a plugin-writing competition, with races between teams from the different editors.
  • Roel Nieskens
    Roel Nieskens Posts: 188
    I'm ultra excited to be there, and I'm happy to have my first type conference be one with such an amazing line-up. Looks like all the folks who's articles I read or tools I use will be there. It's deliciously intimidating!
  • Stephen Coles
    Stephen Coles Posts: 1,008
    edited May 2016
    Is there going to be any video available after? 
    Yes. First for paid attendees, later for all. 
  • Richard Fink
    Richard Fink Posts: 165
    Stephen Coles said:
    Is there going to be any video available after? 
    Yes. First for paid attendees, later for all. 
    Heck, I'd pay to get it shortly after the paid attendees but before "all".  I might not be alone.   More revenue.  Well spent.  Pass it on.

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