Adam Twardoch
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Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolAdam Twardoch is a typographic technology leader and CEO of FontLab with over two decades of hands-on experience in font tool development, Unicode/OpenType engineering, and multilingual text processing. He co-created FontLab VI and co-authored the independently popular Lato type family, combining product leadership with deep technical craft in font production and Python scripting. Adam consults for major software vendors and foundries (Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Monotype) on complex typographic and linguistic challenges, and regularly lectures and edits foundational typography books. Based in Poland and Germany, he bridges cultural scholarship and software product management—his background in cultural anthropology informs a rare sensitivity to multilingual design issues. He still codes automated font-production workflows and contributes to FontLab and latofonts projects, blending CEO-level strategy with practitioner-level tooling expertise.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
visiting lecturer, typography class of Albert-Jan Pool, visiting lecturer, typography class of Albert-Jan Pool at Mathesius-Kunstchochschule KielDiplom-Kulturwissenschaftler (M.A.-equiv.), Cultural Studies, Diplom-Kulturwissenschaftler (M.A.-equiv.), Cultural Studies at European-University Viadrinavisiting lecturer, Type & Typography program, curated by Ilya Ruderman, visiting lecturer, Type & Typography program, curated by Ilya Ruderman at The British Higher School of Art and Designvisiting lecturer (recurring), Akademicki Kurs Typografii, typography program curated by Robert Chwałowski, visiting lecturer (recurring), Akademicki Kurs Typografii, typography program curated by Robert Chwałowski at Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawievisiting lecturer (recurring), typeface design class of Alexander Tarbeev, visiting lecturer (recurring), typeface design class of Alexander Tarbeev at Moscow State University of Printing Arts (MGUP)II LO im Norwida, Tychyvisiting lecturer, typeface design class of Fred Smeijers, visiting lecturer, typeface design class of Fred Smeijers at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzigvisiting lecturer (recurring), M.A. Typeface Design program, curated by Gerry Leonidas, visiting lecturer (recurring), M.A. Typeface Design program, curated by Gerry Leonidas at University of Reading
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Github Skills (200)
notion10
svg10
specification10
command-line-tool10
glyph10
minification10
llmops10
fonts10
freetype10
quality-assurance10
git-workflow10
fonttools10
font-awesome10
azure-openai10
nodejs10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
twardoch/remark-mark-plus
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
Plugin for remark to allow ==Text me== -> <mark>Text me</mark>
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 9 months
remarkmarkdownmark
twardoch/vscode-remark
Mar 2020 - Jun 2025
:electric_plug: Beautify markdown code with Remark for VS Code.
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 4 months
vscodevscode-extensionbeautifyvs-codeelectric
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