TypoTechnica 2007

Monotype Imaging’s Christopher Chapman gave an introduction to the fundamentals of how Indic scripts are written digitally.

With a little programming, elements of an entire font library can be quickly analyzed. Monotype Imaging’s Dave Opstad and Linotype’s Atilla Korap gave a demonstration.

From left to right: Gudrun Zapf von Hesse, Adobe’s David Lemon, Linotype’s Otmar Hoefer, and Hermann Zapf.

One again, Linotype presented its Font Technology Award. This year’s recipient is FontLab’s chief developer, Yuri Yamola (second from left).

Hermann Zapf (right) in a discussion with Linotype’s Nadine Chahine, Christian Schwartz, and Adobe’s Miguel Sousa.

On Sunday morning, about 40 attendees visited the rare book collection at the J. C. Senckenberg Library at the University of Frankfurt. Above, the library’s Bernhard Wirth discusses a William Caslon specimen.