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This is a short report of a participation at the TypeTalks 2010 symposium in Brno, the Czech Republic. The theme of this conference was type. This is a broad area embracing the history of type, the design of type, type education, the use of type (typography) and much more. The key criteria for the acceptance of a talk is that it have educational value. It is not enough to simply show work, knowledge must be shared as well. There were seven invited speakers: Florian Hardwig (D): Localize! The dialects of handwriting in type design; Rob Keller (US/D): Font technology is crazy!; Michael Hochleitner (AT) A contemporary view on the relationship of lettering and type; Tomáš Brousil (CZ): Tabac; Dan Reynolds (US/D) The passion of the young, multi-script type designer; Dan Rhatigan (US/UK): How I learned to stop worrying and love bad type; and Veronika Burian (CZ/D): Typographic matchmaking. (English) |