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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, United States

• Provided thorough visual and technical QA to foundry partners’ fonts, and worked with designers to get their fonts “retail ready” and meet TN’s high quality standards. • Font QA for custom font projects for HP, Canonical, Disney, and Microsoft. • Project management for Disney and Microsoft custom projects.• Manage and collaborate with Adobe on curating TN foundry partner typeface submissions to Adobe Fonts in Creative Cloud. Font QA to meet Adobe standards. • TN partner foundry relations

San Francisco Bay Area

• Wrote and/or contributed to the refinement of OpenType code to support Latin, non-Latin, and symbol scripts, specifically complex scripts including but not limited to Google's Noto Sans SignWriting, Noto Nastaliq Urdu, Noto Sans Newa, Noto Myanmar, and Noto Sans Javanese. • Partnered with designers and project managers to engineer high quality custom fonts while meeting specifications and deadlines. • Interpreted Unicode specifications and collaborated with external designers and linguists to produce complete and functional fonts for multiple languages. • Refined and finalized fonts by closely collaborating with other senior engineers on code implementation, validation, and debugging. • Diagnosed and resolved errors from external font sources in collaboration with quality assurance team. • Customized numerous proofing documents for many scripts and tested fonts to verify functionality, legibility, and compliance (with Harfbuzz, for example). • Contributed to project planning and timeline estimates for font development. • Informed decision-makers through documentation of project specifications, activities, and status. • Supported customer technology needs with font maintenance and recommendations to meet specific requirements while also adapting to software and hardware limitations. • Maintained font performance with necessary updates, sometimes reworking fonts to meet requirements of varying end products such as smart phones, eBooks, cars, or the web. • Meticulously managed working files, data, and source deliverables. • Contributed feedback and functionality requests for development and improvement of proprietary font tools. • Hinted Latin and non-Latin TrueType fonts for clients such as Amazon, Apple, Ford, GE, and Nokia. • Taught all aspects of hinting TrueType to team members in order to meet production demand and increase efficiency.

Boston, Ma

Hinted and produced TrueType fonts including but not limited to Apple's OS 8 Charcoal, HiTech, and Sand; as well as some of the early releases in the Font Bureau library.