tptalks19: Erik van Blokland
Erik van Blokland could not choose between type design and programming and decided to do both. His work includes randomfont Beowolf (MoMA collection 2011), typewriter Trixie, banknote LTR Federal and Eames Century Modern. For many years he has focused on the technical aspects of type design and developed, among other things, the acclaimed type interpolation tools Skateboard, MutatorMath and Superpolator. Erik co-authored the Unified Font Object (UFO) specification and the W3C Web Open Font Format standard.
Erik van Blokland could not choose between type design and programming and decided to do both. His work includes randomfont Beowolf (MoMA collection 2011), typewriter Trixie, banknote LTR Federal and Eames Century Modern. For many years he has focused on the technical aspects of type design and developed, among other things, the acclaimed type interpolation tools Skateboard, MutatorMath and Superpolator. Erik co-authored the Unified Font Object (UFO) specification and the W3C Web Open Font Format standard.