Kvetoslav Bartos
Type Designer at Florian Karsten
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolKvetoslav Bartos is a Type Designer with nine years of experience based in Brno, Czechia, specializing in font production workflows and visual communications. Trained with a BA and MA in Visual Communications from Tomas Bata University in Zlín, he combines design sensitivity with engineering rigour to automate complex build and release processes for type families. As "Bezier Overlord" and a key contributor to projects like Space Grotesk, he streamlined generation and optimization of OTF/TTF/WOFF/WOFF2 formats using fontmake, gftools, ttfautohint and woff2_compress. He excels at turning handcrafted type into web-ready assets, reducing manual steps and accelerating distribution while preserving typographic quality.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Arts (MgA.), Visual Communications, Master of Arts (MgA.), Visual Communications at Tomas Bata University in Zlín
English, Czech
Github Skills (1)
fonts9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
floriankarsten/space-grotesk
Dec 2017 - Sep 2021
Space Grotesk: a proportional variant of the original fixed-width Space Mono family
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:13 releases, 189 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kvetoslav's primary contributions involved automating and improving the build process for the font project. This includes generating different font formats (OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2) using tools like fontmake and gftools, which demonstrates a focus on font production workflows. Furthermore, the user integrated ttfautohint and woff2_compress to optimize the font files, showcasing knowledge of font optimization and web font preparation techniques. These actions resulted in a streamlined build pipeline, making it easier to create and distribute the font.
fixed-widthmonowidthproportionalfont
floriankarsten/montagu-slab
May 2020 - Sep 2021
Montagu Slab by Florian Karsten
Contributions:1 release, 78 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 4 months
florian
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