First Linotype Font Techology Forum

Heidelberg/Bad Homburg 29.05.01

The world’s leading suppliers of digital fonts and font technology – Adobe, Agfa Monotype, Apple, Linotype and Microsoft – took up Linotype’s invitation to a dialog with leading font designers and helped make the 1st Font Technology Forum a success from the outset. "As font designers we are delighted that developments in font technology and the associated electronic design tools have not stood still and are providing us with new design opportunities. Thanks to cutting-edge computer technology, my high quality requirements have now been met and even exceeded", stated the world renowned typographer and font designer Hermann Zapf in his opening speech for the new forum,on the subject of "Quality in font design".

At the end of April, Zapf and more than 80 of his colleagues from 13 countries took up Linotype’s invitation to the futuristic setting of the Print Media Academy of parent company Heidelberger Druckmaschinen. In addition to lectures on technology-related issues, workshops with leading experts also provided font designers with an opportunity to come face to face with new font technologies – in particular OpenType –and tools such as FontLab for digital typeface design.

E-mail inquiries regarding participation in the Font Technology Forum should be directed to: ftf@linotype.com.