Dohee Lee
Dohee Lee received a BA in visual communication design from Seoul National University. Her first Korean typeface, 134340, won a New Wave award from the Korea Font Association. Since joining Sandoll (the oldest and most renowned type foundry in Korea) in 2016, she has developed custom typefaces for major global brands along with retail fonts. Art and technology have always been a primary source of fascination for her—she studied in the interdisciplinary ArtScience program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, where she started to foster a curiosity-driven approach to design. Her recent experiments aim to integrate new type technologies with future CJK typography.
ATypI Tokyo | Friday, 6 September, 2019 | 09:30
– 09:50
| Miraikan Hall
Building Hangul like an Architect: Utilizing Variable Fonts
Talk | Presented in EnglishAs with Chinese and Japanese scripts, one of the biggest difficulties in developing Hangul fonts is the huge number of glyphs that need to be drawn. Fortunately, thanks to its scientifically based writing system, Hangul exhibits a predictable pattern and...