Zachary Scheuren
Senior Font Developer at Adobe
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Scheuren is a Senior Font Developer with nine years of professional experience blending type design, engineering, and tooling, currently at Adobe in San Jose. He has deep expertise in complex writing systems from his time as a Script Specialist and Lead Script Specialist at Monotype and practical experience designing Khmer type. Zachary contributes to prominent open-source font tooling—such as back-end work and automation for Adobe's afdko—where he’s improved otf2ttf conversion, STAT generation, and build automation. His background spans pipeline programming, QA automation, and multimedia post-production, giving him a rare combination of scripting, C++/Qt, and typography domain knowledge. Known for solving subtle font engineering issues, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliable tooling and cross-platform workflows that scale for large type families and variable fonts.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MA Typeface Design, Typography and Graphic Communication, MA Typeface Design, Typography and Graphic Communication at University of ReadingItalian, Film, English, Foreign Languages, Italian, Film, English, Foreign Languages at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Japanese, German, Italian, French
Github Skills (5)
fonttools10
python10
build-automation9
opentype8
variable-fonts7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
adobe-type-tools/afdko
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 41 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (afdko) project by modifying Python scripts and related test files, specifically focusing on the `otf2ttf` conversion process. They made changes to update LSB values, address missing newlines, and integrate features like varLib support. The user also implemented changes to the makeinstancesufo tool and addressed issues in STAT table generation, indicating involvement in build automation and font processing.
development-kitadobegoogle-fontsfontfonts
punchcutter/fonttools
Nov 2017 - Jul 2022
A library to manipulate font files from Python.
Contributions:29 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
pythonfontfontswoff2ufo
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