Type with character(s) – reclaiming control over OpenType fonts
summary
Timeline of actual progress: OpenType delivers ~65k–~40k character capacity and advanced layout but software UI neglect hides features; Adobe forms a customer advisory board and prototypes a usable glyphs panel and canvas dropdowns across InDesign Illustrator Photoshop; the spec advances to OpenType 1.8 (2016) and enables variable fonts that browsers (Chrome) and design tools already support; variable fonts reduce web font payloads (reports up to 80% savings), offer weight/width/optical axes, and prototypes work in demos like Axis Praxis.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 4:03How do we interact with written language?
- 5:09Typography is writing with prefabricated letters.
- 5:26How do we interact with type?
- 16:39Adobe Typography Customer Advisory Board
- 17:30UI improvements in Adobe CC
- 20:48What's next?
- 22:58Type selection & Discovery
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