David Jonathan Ross
David Jonathan Ross draws letters of all shapes and sizes for custom and retail typeface designs. A native of Los Angeles, He began drawing typefaces at Hampshire College and joined The Font Bureau in 2007 where he honed his bézier-wrangling skills. Now he publishes typefaces of visual and technical interest at his own foundry, DJR, as well as working on projects with Type Network and developing display faces for his Font of the Month Club. You’ll find him in Western Massachusetts with his partner Emily and their two dogs, Sophie and Lily.
Talk: Cracking the Code
Reading a block of code is quite unlike reading a paragraph of text. Text is usually meant to be read, while code is meant to be scanned, parsed, edited, copied, pasted, tested, and debugged. As a result, the typography of programming is a relatively new and different typographic animal.
David will examine a world of typography where letters squeeze and stretch to fit in fixed-width spaces, and where a missing semicolon can be the difference between celebration and catastrophe. He'll review the evolution of monospaced typefaces from typewriters to terminals, review stand-out contemporary monospaced designs, and share his experience creating Input, a superfamily of fonts designed specifically for code. Finally, David will share some thoughts on how we can continue to create richer environments for programming typography.
