Peter Karow

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Peter Karow Born in Stargard, Pomerania, in 1940, Peter Karow studied physics at the University of Hamburg. After receiving his PhD in 1971, he co-founded the company URW Software & Type GmbH in Hamburg (URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, after the first two of the founders, Rubow and Weber [Karow being the third one], and was succeeded by URW++). Peter Karow was the technical director at URW. In 1975, his Ikarus (typography software) was introduced to members of Association Typographique Internationale in Warsaw. Afterwards, Ikarus was used all over the world for the digitization of fonts. Between 1975 and 1995, URW digitized a large number of fonts for companies such as IBM, Siemens, Microsoft, Apple Inc., Adobe, Linotype, Monotype, Rudolf Hell and numerous Japanese companies. Starting in 1988, Karow and Zapf cooperated on the hz program for micro-typography of texts. Karow published Digitale Schriften. Darstellung und Formate (1992, Springer, Berlin), Digital Typefaces (Springer, 1994), Typeface Statistics (URW Verlag, Hamburg, 1993), and Font Technology (Springer, 1994), and is an expert in font technology. In 2013, DTL published Karow's booklet Digital Typography & Artificial Intelligence. In 2003, he was the first recipient of the Dr. Peter Karow Award established by DTL to honor people with extraordinary and innovative achievements in the field of font-related technology.	EXTERNAL LINKS Peter Karow [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Books on type design ⦿ The Polish type scene ⦿ German type scene ⦿