Aaron B
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAaron B is a principal type designer and program manager based in Seattle with over a decade of experience in font production and tooling. He combines hands-on font development—converting sources to UFO, designing glyphs, and generating TTF/OTF/WOFF2 outputs—with program-level coordination to integrate diverse families into major distributions. His open-source contributions include work on high-profile projects such as Google Fonts and Microsoft's Cascadia Code, where he focused on Japanese font integration, feature implementation, and build automation. Comfortable across design and engineering boundaries, he also manages licensing, metadata, and documentation to ensure fonts are production-ready and traceable to upstream sources. Colleagues rely on him for bridging typographic craft with robust developer workflows and cross-repository integrations.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
version-control10
git10
font-style10
font-face10
metadata-management10
fonts10
fonttools10
python10
font-rendering10
documentation9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/cascadia-code
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.
Role in this project:
Font Developer
Font DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 118 commits, 67 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaron's commits primarily revolve around modifying the source code and build processes for the "Cascadia Code" font, a monospaced font with programming ligatures. The contributions focus on converting the font source to UFO format, implementing various feature files, and updating glyph designs. They also integrated Nerd Font glyphs and generated both TTF and OTF font variants, as well as their corresponding WOFF2.
ufoopentypetruetypelookmonospaced
google/fonts
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 131 commits, 182 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the google/fonts repository by adding and updating new Japanese fonts. They integrated various font families, sourced from upstream repositories, into the Google Fonts project. Their work involved adding the font files, descriptions, and metadata, and they also updated the relevant documentation and license files. The user frequently worked on Japanese fonts, adding information about their origins and their corresponding contribution links to their parent project on GitHub.
google-fontstrackerfontfontswoff
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