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ABOUT

Behdad Esfahbod

Behdad Esfahbod was born and grew up in Iran. He studied computer engineering at Sharif University in Tehran while discovering the world of computer typography and open source. In 2003 he moved to Canada, studied at the University of Toronto, became a regular contributor to GNOME and many other open source projects, worked at Red Hat, Google, and generally became the go-to person regarding everything font and text rendering in open source projects. Speaker at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. The abstract of his talk there explains the current status of the FontTools package: FontTools/TTX is a Python package for converting OpenType font fonts to / from XML. It was developed in early 2000s by Just van Rossum and has been in wide use by the type community since, mostly for testing and inspection, but its development has had stopped for the most part. In Summer 2013 I resurrected FontTools development by adding support for many tables that have not been supported before (EBDT/EBLC, CBDT/CBLC, sbix, COLR/CPAL, SVG, ...), as well as implementing new tools: a full font subsetting tool, font inspection tool, font merge tool. In this talk I will talk about the community gathered around the new FontTools development as well as my plans to expand FontTools into a full Open Source font production pipeline.

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INTERNAL LINKS
Open source fonts ⦿ The Canadian type scene ⦿ Font software ⦿ Type personalities ⦿ Type design in Iran ⦿