Robert Typewood

Designing the typeface shouldnt be repetitive work.
I am dreaming of the perfect interpolation tool.

38 year, Reading

Type Designer with His own type foundry

Robert run his own typefoundry. He already published dosens of families. He has his stable workflow process which allows him to create typefaces really fast.

Time to times he give a lecture at the nearest university to introduce designing typefaces to the student.

Tools He uses

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MacBook Pro
iPhone
Mouse
Pencil
Markers
Printer

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Glyphs
Fontlab
Illustrator
Indesign

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Facebook
Twitter
Medium
Typophile
Myfonts

His skills

Visual design
Calligraphy
Type design
Logotype design
Lettering

His available budget

His expectations towards the buying decision

His workflow process journey

Pain points

Digitalisation from manual physical drawing
Sketching correction limits.

He always stugled with interpolation.
Polishing caligraphic based typeface shapes takes long boring time.

Solution

Brush on the Path workflow with possibility to edit Path and brush

Thanks to brush local control is interpolation faster and more precise

Desires

Create clear extreme anchor points for outline curve, so she can makes polishing faster.

Enough is tool for previewing behaviour of brush, something like typeface prototyping

Opportunities

Points are always created on extreme ends of the X or the Y axis

It allows even download perfect outline to work with after in his favourite tools.