The Adobe Fonts Show - Font Formats: Past, Present & Future w/ Natanael Gama | Adobe Creative Cloud

Font formats can seem like a black box of mystery. But fear not… On this episode, Ari & Ben will explore this topic with Natanael Gama, the Portuguese type designer and founder of NDISCOVER, one of our Adobe Fonts foundry partners.

Natanael launched his first typeface Exo with Google Fonts in 2011 and it quickly became one of the most used typefaces on the web. He is now a type educator and has continued to create fantastic typefaces, many of which are available to Creative Cloud subscribers: https://fonts.adobe.com/foundries/ndiscover

In this episode, Natanael will:

- Give us a brief history of font formats.

- Explain some of the pros and cons.

- Give insights into why and how things have changed over the years.

- And the exciting things to come!

Learn more about Natanael and NDISCOVER here: https://www.ndiscover.com/

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Chapters

00:00 Start

3:05 Audience Poll

5:30 Showing Featured Foundries

9:20 Intro to Natanael’s Work

11:43 Difference Between Typeface and Font

15:15 Scalable Fonts

20:00 TTF File Format

21:16 MM File Format

24:10 OTF File Format

29:15 How to Tell What File Format You’re Using in Photoshop

30:24 Smart Features of OTF File Type

31:58 Web Font Formats

33:55 Variable Font Format

39:10 Tips to Not Be Overwhelmed By So Many Font Options!

47:16 Apps to Create Fonts

49:20 Natanael’s Road Blocks in His Career

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The Adobe Fonts Show - Font Formats: Past, Present & Future w/ Natanael Gama | Adobe Creative Cloud

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