Basics of Fontlab VI

Yuri Yarmola, Thomas Phinney, Adam Twardoch

Labs 2016

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 | 14:00 | Factory

Basics of Fontlab VI

Yuri Yarmola, Thomas Phinney, Adam Twardoch

Labs 2016 | Wednesday, 11 May 2016 | 14:00 | Factory |

In this 45-minute talk, Adam, Thomas and Yuri introduce the newest build of FontLab VI. Six 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, backed by FontLab’s 25 years of experience, active input from hundreds of professional type designers, and cutting-edge research scholarly research. The FontLab team will give a comprehensive overview of the app’s new toolset and structure.

Yuri Yarmola

(St. Petersburg)

Yuri Yarmola is as Vice President Research & Development of FontLab. He began dabbling with fonts in 1989, and designed the first of many font editors and utilities in 1991. He designed and led development of all versions of FontLab and FontLab Studio, as well as a number of other applications... Read More

Thomas Phinney

Typographer / Vice President @ FontLab(Portland, Oregon)

Thomas Phinney is President of FontLab. Previously he worked at Extensis (web fonts and font management tools) and Adobe (as product manager for global fonts and typography). Thomas is also a type designer, teacher, writer, and consultant on fonts and typography. He teaches type design with... Read More

Adam Twardoch

Director of Products, FontLab(Berlin)

Adam Twardoch is Director of Products of FontLab. He also has been working as a font consultant for MyFonts, Monotype, Google, Adobe and many independent font vendors, specializing in font technology, multilingual typography, CSS webfonts, Unicode and OpenType. Adam has been a core member... Read More