I'm making type and typography accessible and available to everyone in my role as co-founder, UX manager and design lead for
Google Fonts, (
read more about that here).
Recently I returned to Berlin, Germany after spending time working in London, New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Read about other things I've done in the past on my
LinkedIn profile.
Fonts are Software now, and that's awesome!
There was a time in the early ages of the internet when web designers would embed little flash files into their website for each heading in their layout. They did this to be able to embed and use typefaces other than the few fonts that were considered “web safe”. Since then, a lot has changed on the internet. These days, designers and developers have many choices when selecting type for their projects.
This talk will cover how new technologies like variable fonts are changing type to be more like software—and will open up entirely new possibilities in digital spaces.
How Google Fonts Designed a Specimen Page for Any TypefaceGiven the wide variety of typefaces Google Fonts offers, our new specimen pages needed to be able to showcase the individual characteristics of each font family, while staying universally applicable and scalable. Users needed a clear path to download the fonts or to use them via the service.
Typography for everyone As one of the co-founders of Google Fonts, Tobias believes that open source fonts are an important way in which we can provide access to typography for anyone designing and building things on the internet. Especially in regions of the world that don’t use the latin alphabet.New technologies like variable fonts are changing type to be more like software and will open up entirely new possibilities in digital spaces.
Fonts are software (and icons too!) New type technologies like Variable Fonts and Color Fonts are changing this. These new font standards make it possible to think of type and icons as real software that can be manipulated programmatically and during runtime. And they open up whole new ways of typographic expression.