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Silesian Letters [Adam Twardoch]

Adam Twardoch is a Polish type expert (b. 1975) who lived in Frankfurt (Oder), after graduating in cultural studies in the same city. Since the summer of 2000, he is type consultant of MyFonts, and in the summer of 2002, he became type consultant at Linotype. He also ran Font.org, which closed around 2005. In January 2004, he joined Fontlab as "Scripting Products and Marketing Manager". Currently he is Product and Marketing Manager at FontLab and MyFonts. Designer of TTG Andromeda (2001, now Andromeda SL), inspired by a 1970's-like logo design for the "Andromeda" cinema in Tychy, Poland. Fontspace link. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about East-European diacritics, and Cenrral European type support. In 2007, he designed Nadyezhda SL One, based on Jim Lyles' Bitstream Vera Mono. SL stands for Silesian Letters. Speaker in the TypeTech Forum at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, and at numerous other type design and type tech meetings. Subpage with samples of Polish type, 1918-1990.

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