Add designer bios (batch 3) #10167
Add designer bios (batch 3) #10167
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Added biographies for 7 designers: - Linus Romer (font tool developer) - Martin Sommaruga (Estudio Trama - Rambla, Rufina) - Michal Sahar (Hagilda - Miriam Libre, Secular One) - Natalia Raices (Delius family) - Onur Yazıcıgil (Duru Sans) - Pablo Ugerman (Trirong, Asul) - Riccardo De Franceschi (RDF Type - Gravitas One, Asset) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>
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| <p>Linus Romer is a type designer and font developer specializing in font technology and open-source tools for the type design community. He has developed several widely-used utilities for font engineering, including tools for curve manipulation, METAFONT conversion, and font interpolation.</p><p>His work focuses on technical aspects of type design, creating plugins for FontForge and developing software that bridges traditional METAFONT technology with modern outline font formats. He is recognized as a contributor to the Arctic Code Vault and has an active presence in the open-source typography community.</p> | |||
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"He is recognized as a contributor to the Arctic Code Vault" this is pretty common and seems like AI filler to me.
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| <p>Martin Sommaruga is a type designer who runs Estudio Trama, a design studio based in South America. He has contributed open-source typefaces to Google Fonts since 2012.</p><p>His typeface Rambla is a humanist sans-serif designed for medium-long texts, featuring a slightly condensed design with a generous x-height and economical proportions. Rufina, his serif typeface, combines features of several typographic styles with Bodoni forms found in the calligraphy of flexible tip pens, featuring high contrast that works well in both text and headlines.</p> | |||
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"featuring high contrast that works well in both text and headlines"
😆 Pretty sure we haven't seen this one in a while ;-)
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| <p>Riccardo De Franceschi is an Italian type designer known for creating distinctive display typefaces. He runs RDF Type and has collaborated with Sorkin Type Co on several projects for Google Fonts.</p><p>His typefaces are characterized by bold, expressive forms well-suited for headlines and display use. Many of his designs feature playful personality and strong visual impact, ranging from the ultra-bold slab serif Gravitas One to the decorative Goblin One and Vampiro One.</p> | |||
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First thing first, I find this very impressive that LLMs are now in a position to conduct their own research and write these bios. However, they clearly have been made by an LLM and are average at best. "Works well in both text and headlines" is what people write when they're desperate. Writing about fonts in 1000x harder than designing them Now the main question, is having LLM placeholder semi-slop better than nothing at all? I reckon we're a couple of generations of models away from having something decent. It will eventually happen. |
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These PRs from last week are an initial experiment. I agree with all that you said, @m4rc1e I'd like to describe here my vision. I think we should employ here the same mindset of fontbakery/fontspector. Here's how I see it:
This does not replace Fontspector, and it also does not replace the need for human review. I'm only making the comparison here because it helps to clarify my goals. A human reviewing before merging is always needed. We were used to having (at least) 2 human brains working on a given PR to get it approved and merged (the submitter and the reviewer). Now we are entering an era where there's 3 brains: 2 wet and 1 dry ;) The content of the strict policies described at |
This GitHub recognition badge is not relevant to font designers' professional profiles. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>
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Take a look at felipesanches/gfonts_agents@7c42ffd And also at felipesanches/gfonts_agents@9a849fa |
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Summary
Added biographies for 7 designers who were missing bio.html files in their catalog entries:
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