International Design Talks

Variable Fonts Update / Brainstorming Variable Fonts

Peter Constable, Rob McKaughan
Labs 2017
Friday, 7 April 2017 | 10:00 | Cupola
English

Variable Fonts Update / Brainstorming Variable Fonts

Peter Constable, Rob McKaughan
Labs 2017 | Friday, 7 April 2017 | 10:00 | Cupola | English
Peter Constable will update everyone on the current plans and ideas for variable fonts in the OpenType specification (version 1.8.1 and beyond). He will also describe the latest features in Microsoft products, including demos. Rob McKaughan will brainstorm uses for variable fonts beyond responsive typography.
Peter Constable

Peter Constable

Senior Program Manager Lead at Microsoft
Peter Constable is a Senior Program Manager in the Windows Graphics team at Microsoft, leading work on the DirectWrite text platform, font handling. He also maintains the OpenType specification, and led the cross-company collaboration to create the variable-font extensions to OpenType. In... Read More
Rob McKaughan

Rob McKaughan

Typographer in the Advanced Reading Technologies, Microsoft
Rob McKaughan has a great many interests (or a very short attention span): He has worked in software development and interaction design at Microsoft and at Amazon Web Services, studied typeface design at the University of Reading, made a documentary film about endurance bicycling, and along... Read More

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