Tobias Kunisch
Senior Staff UX Manager, Google Fonts
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolTobias Kunisch is a design-led engineering manager and product innovator with over 20 years of experience building digital products across the US, Germany and the UK. As co-founder and current Senior Staff UX Manager of Google Fonts, he drives global font development—including Google Sans, Roboto, Noto and Material Symbols—and led a redesign that won a 2024 Webby for Best User Interface. He introduced Design Tokens into Material Design and Google’s systems, helping scale consistent cross-product UX at one of the world’s largest design organizations. His work on Android Instant Apps and the World Wonders Project seeded product categories and initiatives used by millions and helped found Google Arts & Culture. Tobias combines systems thinking with hands-on front-end and information-architecture roots, managing interdisciplinary teams and external foundries to deliver widely adopted open-source typography at web scale. Based in Berlin, he blends strategic leadership with deep subject-matter expertise in typography and design systems.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinBachelor of arts, Design and Multimedia, Sehr gut, Bachelor of arts, Design and Multimedia, Sehr gut at Mediadesign - Hochschule für Design und Informatik
English, German
Github Skills (8)
woff10
opentype10
fonts10
truetype10
google-fonts10
specification7
design-tokens7
css6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
design-tokens/community-group
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
This is the official DTCG repository for the design tokens specification.
Contributions:2 comments in 1 year
tokenscssspecificationdesigndesign-system
google/fonts
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts
Contributions:1 commit, 3 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
google-fontstrackerfontfontswoff
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