Making Fonts for Unicode: Tools, Workflows, and Quality Assurance

Glenda Bellarosa

This session introduces the fundamentals of font design and development, with a focus on tools, workflows, and Unicode compatibility. Designed for beginners, it offers an overview of font editing software, resources for learning type design basics, character set planning, and methods for testing and ensuring font quality. Attendees will leave with a clear starting point and an understanding of where to find support and guidance within the broader type design community. The session includes insights from the speaker’s workflow for building fonts based on script proposals submitted to Unicode

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