Adam Twardoch
Chief Executive Officer at Adam Twardoch
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolAdam Twardoch is a typography-focused technology executive based in Warsaw and Berlin and the CEO of FontLab, with over 25 years of experience building font tools, multilingual text processing, and online font distribution. As FontLab’s long-time Director of Products he co-created FontLab VI and spearheaded Python-powered automation and scripting workflows used by professional type designers worldwide. He co-authored the independently popular Lato family, has advised Microsoft, Google, Adobe and Monotype on Unicode/OpenType and multilingual typography, and contributed to web typography by authoring CSS properties like font-variation-settings and font-optical-sizing. A frequent lecturer, editor and ATypI board member, he brings an unusual blend of cultural anthropology and business training to hands-on font engineering and product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
visiting lecturer, typography class of Albert-Jan Pool, visiting lecturer, typography class of Albert-Jan Pool at Mathesius-Kunstchochschule KielDiplom-Kulturwissenschaftler (M.A.-equiv.), Cultural Studies, Diplom-Kulturwissenschaftler (M.A.-equiv.), Cultural Studies at European-University Viadrinavisiting lecturer, Type & Typography program, curated by Ilya Ruderman, visiting lecturer, Type & Typography program, curated by Ilya Ruderman at The British Higher School of Art and Designvisiting lecturer (recurring), Akademicki Kurs Typografii, typography program curated by Robert Chwałowski, visiting lecturer (recurring), Akademicki Kurs Typografii, typography program curated by Robert Chwałowski at Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawievisiting lecturer (recurring), typeface design class of Alexander Tarbeev, visiting lecturer (recurring), typeface design class of Alexander Tarbeev at Moscow State University of Printing Arts (MGUP)II LO im Norwida, Tychyvisiting lecturer, typeface design class of Fred Smeijers, visiting lecturer, typeface design class of Fred Smeijers at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzigvisiting lecturer (recurring), M.A. Typeface Design program, curated by Gerry Leonidas, visiting lecturer (recurring), M.A. Typeface Design program, curated by Gerry Leonidas at University of Reading
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Github Skills (200)
notion10
specification10
remapping10
minification10
fonts10
freetype10
quality-assurance10
font-awesome10
harfbuzz10
typeface10
ttk10
unicode10
typography10
python10
keystroke10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
twardoch/twardoch.github.io
Jan 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
notofonts/noto-docs
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Official Noto documentation
Contributions:1 review, 95 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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