Chrome Typography and FontTools Update

Dominik Röttsches, Behdad Esfahbod

Labs 2018

Saturday, 14 April 2018 | 15:00 | Nave

English

Chrome Typography and FontTools Update

Dominik Röttsches, Behdad Esfahbod

Labs 2018 | Saturday, 14 April 2018 | 15:00 | Nave | English

Dominik Röttsches

Senior Software Engineer, Google Chrome

Dominik has more than ten years of experience working on Web browsers with a special focus on fonts and text. He is part of the Chrome browser's layout and text team at Google. Previously working for Intel, he moved the Mac version of the Chrome browser from Apple's CoreText to using the HarfBuzz... Read More

Behdad Esfahbod

Internationalization Software Engineer, Google Inc.

Behdad Esfahbod was born and grew up in Iran loving typography and computers. He studied computer engineering at Sharif University in Tehran while discovering the world of digital typography and Open Source. In 2003 he moved to Canada, studied at the University of Toronto, became a regular... Read More

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