Fonts: From Clay to Pixels
15 Apr17:35 – 18:00Stage: Main StageTalk
Let’s explore typography - From early writings carved into clay tablets to the pixels rendered on your screen. We'll look at how movable type and mechanical inventions transformed communication and print, then look into how fonts work in the digital world: bitmap grids, vector outlines, anti-aliasing, and modern formats like TrueType, OpenType, and WOFF2 - revealing how centuries of technical constraints still shape the text in our digital products.

