Onur Yacizigil & Tom Milo – The pivotal role of Arabic script grammar in the transition …
Channel: GRANSHAN Conference
Date: 2015-09-07

The pivotal role of Arabic script grammar in the transition from manual to mechanized text reproduction 
Onur Yazıcıgil is a typographer and educator who currently lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. He received his MFA from Purdue University in the USA. In 2007 he won the first prize in typographic excellence from the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago. He has spoken at TypeCon, ATypI, TypoBerlin, and lectured on various topics in the field of typography. At the present, he is a faculty member at Sabancı University. He has recently developed a humanist sanserif typeface, Duru, with partial availability on Google Web Fonts. In addition to his research in latin typefaces, he has been most focused on the Ottoman metal typeface production of the 19th century, in particular Ottoman naskh typefaces. He designs Arabic books for the Dutch publisher Brill, and since 2011 has been the co-creator and co-organizer of the ISType conferences held in the heart of Istanbul.
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Thomas Milo is partner in DecoType, a team that has been working on Arabic script technology since 1982, in the course of which they pioneered the concept of Dynamic Font (Smart Font, Intelligent Font). Tom has contributed to Unicode since 1988 and licensed fonts and their ACE font layout engine various companies (e.g., to Microsoft as OLE server, creating the first smart font on the Windows platform). The most comprehensive implementation of DecoType concepts to date is WinSoft’s Tasmeem, a plug-in that turns InDesign in a veritable Arabic typesetting system. In 2009 Tom received on behalf of DecoType the Dr Peter Karow Award in recognition for his fundamental contribution for computer typography.