🎨 Python for Designers

Roberto Arista, Font Engineer @ Typotheque
Why do certain designers choose Python over JavaScript? How has Python become the preferred scripting language for type designers and font professionals? We delve into the contemporary tools ecosystem utilized in font production today.
We will explore the evolution of the Python for Designers project and gain some insights from four years of hybrid teaching experiences. Lastly, a brief overview of the daily operations of a contemporary type foundry and the typical tasks undertaken by font engineers.
Roberto Arista is a typographic designer and a font engineer. He builds tools and fonts at Typotheque, and he takes good care of RoboFont editor documentation. He graduated from ISIA Urbino and KABK type]media master program. In 2017 he published pythonfordesigners.com, an open-source award winning manual to teach designers how to program in Python.

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