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Typesetting Trains | Laurence Penney | ATypI 2020 All Over

Ever since the first train services, a wide variety of guides have helped passengers understand the railways; supplementing the text with timetables, maps, views, and diagrams. Typographically speaking, the linear nature of railways and the modular nature of trains meant that successful diagrams could be designed economically by using typographic sorts. Various typographic trains and railways from the 1830s to present-day will be evaluated in terms of data visualization, decoration, and the economics of reproduction. Bringing things up to date, techniques for typesetting emoji and CSS trains are explored, and a railway-inspired layout model will be proposed for wider application in the typography of data visualization and ornamentation. Presentation by Laurence Penney followed by Q&A led by moderator Yves Peters. *** Laurence Penney is a software developer specializing in font technology. Penney is based in Bristol and is an expert on variable fonts. Penney became interested in hacking font systems while creating a parametric font design prototype as a student. After some TrueType hinting geekery in the 1990s, Penney worked for Bitstream to create MyFonts. Now, Penney helps people create and explore variable fonts. Penney’s website, Axis-Praxis, helps font makers test their fonts, and his open-source Samsa web app interactively visualizes the mechanisms of variable fonts.