Kerning 2017
as the organisers put it
8 Great speakers, 1 wonderful medieval town, 1 thousand typefaces. Buy your ticket now!
who it's for
type designers, font engineers, typographers, brand and identity designers, magazine and editorial designers, signage and wayfinding designers, type historians and researchers
topics
Variable Fonts (OpenType Variations); Multiple Master and GX history; optical size axis implementations; face-tracking text calibration; Roman capitals geometrical construction; rub-down type and photosetting practices; automated magazine generation software; Georgian uppercase Unicode support; OpenType case mapping workflows; punch cutting and hot-metal constraints
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| On Pacioli’s Letterforms and the Debate Between Art and Science | Antonio Cavedoni | 34m |
Claims that Roman capitals can be built with compass and ruler get tested against evidence: De Divina Proportione presents geometrical constructions, the… | ||
| Marginalized Typography | Dan Rhatigan | 36m |
An archival argument that rub-down type and early photosetting literally shape letter choices: alternate glyphs and bespoke spacing turn cheap production into… | ||
| Choose my identity | Lars Harmsen | 43m |
Travels and projects turn into concrete outcomes: a software that auto-generates a magazine (images and text linked to a database, no manual layout), stencil… | ||
| Variable Fonts: Full Circle 1991–2017 | Thomas Phinney | 35m |
History and tech explained with concrete claims: the 1990s Multiple Master and GX Variations are predecessors and Variable Fonts (OpenType Variations) is a… | ||
| Redesigning reading experience | Marianna Paszkowska | 41m |
A Monotype team builds a variable font with optical size axis that automatically swaps optical masters and uses glyph substitutions triggered by axis… | ||
| Capital additions to Georgian typography | Jan Charvat | 24m |
Unicode accepts Georgian uppercase as of 10 May and the work documents how that is actually implemented: a 130-glyph set plus basic Latin, diacritics for… | ||
| The visible invisibility of words | Jean Francois Porchez | 58m |
Design claim: a custom Parisine typeface solves RATP signage constraints by switching to caps-and-lowercase, narrow widths and then testing on LED bus… | ||
| Narratives around design | Dan Reynolds | 46m |
Argues that "type design" needs a process‑based definition grounded in foundry practice, not just a designer's name, backing it with archival evidence: over… | ||
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