Add "About" info for typeface, designers and foundry

[tphinney]

EDIT: most of the info here goes into the article! It is at article/ARTICLE.en_us.html and I have started putting stuff in it.

Content for the “about” sections for the typeface, and for the designers

Family info should be a minimum of 100-500 words, 1000 words preferred. Should include:

• Font family name
• One or two key descriptor(s) (e.g. variable, minimal, grotesque, etc)
• Why it was created/what it’s designed to do
• Notable characteristics and features
• Anything extra you want people to know
• Scripts (e.g. Latin, Cyrillic, etc)

Designers info (EDIT: this gets added directly to a Google form, we are doing this)

• about 100 words is ideal (200-1000 characters allowed) EDIT: absolute limit of 100 words
• written in the third person
• Designer’s name and location
• Short bio
• Notable projects
• One or two links to project(s), website and/or social media. Links are referenced as “Twitter”, “Instagram” "Project Name" "Designer Name website" etcetera, not by linking the name.
• written in English, names in Latin script but can have any diacritics needed

example:

Greg Gazdowicz (b. 1988) hails from the suburbs of Gaithersburg, Maryland. He studied graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art, then completed the Type@Cooper Extended program in 2014, months after joining the design staff of Commercial Type. Greg has designed custom typefaces for Mailchimp, La Republica, Google, and New York magazine, and has released several families through Commercial Type, including Robinson and the ambitious Terza family.

Twitter

Foundry Info

~ equivalent requirements to designer info above

[tphinney]

Hey @kateliev and @servantb I need bios from each of you! See the above requirements. :)

[tphinney]

Thomas Phinney bio:
Thomas Phinney was born in the USA, grew up in Canada, and has spend most of his adult life on what he calls the “left coast” of the US—since 2009 in Portland, Oregon. He has an MS in typography and design from RIT, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and four patents. He spent over a decade at Adobe, as well as stints at Extensis and as CEO of FontLab. He has designed typefaces for Adobe (Hypatia Sans) as well as Google (Science Gothic), and font production for Google’s Material Symbols. Phinney is also the world’s only consulting font detective (with his company, Font Detective LLC), doing forensic typography around issues such as forged documents using fonts that did not yet exist, and determining whether documents meet point size requirements.

Mastodon/Fediverse
Thomas Phinney typography website
Font Detective website

[tphinney]

Brandon Buerkle grew up in Colorado, USA, and has lived his entire adult life in a small town outside Portland, Oregon, USA. He has a BA in studio art and a BA in graphic design, and spent well over a decade practicing graphic design while trying to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up. He now operates as a small foundry, Society of Fonts, creating typefaces he hopes will make the world just a little better. He’s designed type for Google and for the unwashed masses.

Instagram
Website

[tphinney]

Need bio from @kateliev and a font description from @tphinney

[tphinney]

Description is the first paragraph of the readme (freshly updated) at https://github.com/googlefonts/science-gothic/blob/main/README.md

[kateliev]

@tphinney here is a belated bio:

Vassil Kateliev is a type and graphic designer, and software developer, based in Varna, Bulgaria. With over 15 years in type design, he has created notable type families such as Basil, for which he received an award in the Cyrillic Category at GRANSHAN 2014, and co-authored Bolyar for FontMaker, which has now become a staple in the package and labeling industry. Vassil has collaborated on major projects such as Science Gothic and Material Symbols for Google. His approach is characterized by a blend of creativity and technical proficiency. Skilled in type design, engineering and workflow automation, he often develops his own tools helping him enhance the design process.

[tphinney]

That’s all the raw info, I just have to put it in the right places!

[tphinney]

I learned that Google has a hard limit of 100 words for the bio! Vassil’s original is 108 words. Here is a slightly edited version that is 98 words.

Vassil Kateliev is a type and graphic designer, and software developer, based in Varna, Bulgaria. With over 15 years in type design, he has created notable type families such as Basil, for which he received an award at GRANSHAN 2014, and co-authored Bolyar for FontMaker, which has now become a staple in the package and labeling industry. Kateliev has collaborated on major projects such as Science Gothic and Material Symbols for Google. His approach blends creativity and technical proficiency. Skilled in type design, engineering and workflow automation, Kateliev often develops his own tools to enhance the design process.

[kateliev]

@tphinney it is perfect! Thank you!

[tphinney]

Cool — but you will still have to submit it yourself, see email.

[kateliev]

@tphinney done! Submitted!