Frank Grießhammer
Type Designer at Adobe Systems
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarFrank Grießhammer is a Type Designer with 13 years of experience based in California, currently shaping font tools and typefaces at Adobe Systems. He blends practical type design expertise with hands-on software engineering, contributing to the widely used Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO) to improve tooling, documentation, and Python 3 compatibility. His work spans bug fixes, script and output handling, and low-level sfnt editing—skills that sit at the intersection of typography and developer tooling. Colleagues rely on him to bridge creative design needs with robust, maintainable code for production font workflows. Frank’s dual fluency in design and engineering makes him particularly effective at turning typographic requirements into reliable, automatable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
English, German, Italian, French
Github Skills (9)
opentype10
font-face10
fonts10
python10
documentation9
c117
truetype7
c177
regular-expression6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
adobe-type-tools/afdko
Feb 2017 - Dec 2022
Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Focus on Font Development Tools)
Software Engineer (Focus on Font Development Tools)Contributions:6 reviews, 19 commits, 22 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO) repository, making various improvements and bug fixes. They addressed issues related to output and script wrapping within installation scripts. Additionally, they fixed whitespace errors, updated and re-formatted documentation, and made code adjustments for Python 3 compatibility. The user also worked on sfntedit, improving documentation and code formatting.
development-kitadobegoogle-fontsfontfonts
adobe-fonts/source-serif
Dec 2014 - Jan 2023
Typeface for setting text in many sizes, weights, and languages. Designed to complement Source Sans.
Contributions:7 releases, 908 commits, 18 PRs in 8 years 2 months
ttf-fontsotfvariable-fontsufoafdko
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