 It was great to be back in Portland after five years, right? Which was also, by the way, Portland, very musical city. The moment I got off the light rail from the airport, I saw this kid walking with headphones down the street, maybe 16, 17 years old, going, in your head, in your head, zombie, zombie. Fantastic, yes. We don't have that in Austria, yes. And it's really cool. And so it was probably, this kid's tribute to Dolores O'Riordan, a cranberry singer who unfortunately died earlier this year. And so I want to dedicate this doc to Dolores O'Riordan. This one's for you. Okay, so maybe some, who of you was at Typecondenver? Okay, a couple, not so many actually. I showed this font at Typecondenver. By the way, this here, you see, I mean, texted it, this is all life, and there's no slides or anything. This is not a movie, I'm really typing this here. And this is a font that originated in Istanbul during ISType 2013. We had a type conference in the middle of the Gacy Park protests, if you are familiar with those, where the Erdogan regime cracked down on protestors, I think there were people injured, even a few dead, in the middle of this, we had a type conference, like this one here, like this, I think there were racists marching yesterday, yes, and here we're having a type conference, yes. Yeah, so I thought, how can I, what can I do to support the Gacy Park protests typographically? If you type the word Gacy, it takes its place. And also, of course, I had to do something anti-Edwan, so if you try to type the word Erdogan, it goes into Erdogan, yeah. Yes, oh, by the way, this is also like the future font, the constant progress, I've been updating this with colors. So now you get Erdogan in the colors of the rainbow, wow, cool. Yes, and it didn't stop there ever since there's a lot of bullshit happening in politics, not only in Turkey, also in Europe, and you may be familiar with the Italian politician Salvini. If you don't know him, he's a racist asshole, sorry, I don't know, sorry. But the right-wingers are against political correctness, so it's like we name them by their names, right? So, and he is okay with people drowning in the Mediterranean, I'm turning Mediterranean red, and I think he deserves this required ligature. Sorry, Salvini, I cannot turn this off, there's nothing I can do, sorry, whenever I type your name, that's just a name. And I thought, since this country is great again, you have to do it in capital letters because here's the best letters, right, that the capitalists, capital letters. So if you do that, yeah, I have, sorry, this is not my fault, there's a required ligature, there's nothing, I cannot turn it off. If you're familiar with open type ligatures, you know, there's the standard ligatures that are on by default that the user can turn off, there are the discretionary ligatures that are off by default that the user can turn on, and there are the required ligatures, sorry, I cannot do anything about it, it's just how it is. And by the way, this is in the latest Meg West version, this is the C-Pel color phones are now supported in there, and I like how the hair is like above the auto correct line. Well, great implementation, Apple. Well, so the hair goes above all. And if you might remember that, we also had like games in there, so you can play games in this font and maybe like this, and then I go, yes, yeah, and it's now all in color, yeah, fantastic. Or I love this game, yeah, and oh, I love to play this. You know this, what is it called in English? Rockers, rock, stone, scissors, yeah, whatever. And I love to play this with the audience. So I get to play a one, right? And I play, I secretly push either one for scissors, two for stone or three for paper, and you're a player too now. Now who's for one scissors? No one? Okay, who's for rock and who's for paper? I think that's the majority and then, ah, damn, you win. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's try again, ha, ha. Okay, all right, so, okay. So who's for one scissors? Who's for rock? Who's for paper? All right, I think that was scissors now. And ha, ha, ha, got a cheap mode built in. So I think this is the first font with a cheap mode. Yes, and even the, if those of you who were there, there was the Marine Bot movie game, and they turned that into colors as well. If you're not familiar with the game, it's about taking away these sticks here, and whoever has to take the last stick loses, right? So it works like this. And the cool thing about this game is, it has an open type feature. So this is how you activate open type features, by the way, in text editing case, you didn't know. And there is an alternative stylistic set, and it has, it's called Marine Bart, Artificial Intelligence and the Artificial Intelligence. Now, also in colors, and I can type, for instance, B2, and the font plays against me. This is the font playing against me, and I can go like this, and then, ooh-ooh, just not looking good for me, I think. I'll try this one, oh, you lose, try again. Now, those of you who know that game know that it's an unfair game, a so-called unfair game, the second player, if he or she does not make a mistake, he can force their victory. And the second player is my font, and the open type feature in that game always plays the ideal move after you, so it will always win, so it's the unbeatable font. Yes. All right, so much for an update for this. I will be adding politicians' names and right-wingers and racists being called out, and being corrected in the text. So whenever you set the text, their name will automatically be corrected to their required ligature. Good, so, but there is, oh, there's more stuff like this. Okay, so, oh, there's even more. Okay, let me get it, this is live typing, this is real live, so this is the proof. Okay, where do I start? I think most of you know this, right? Have you seen this? Who has seen this? This is a font, for those of you who have not seen this, this is a font you can actually select, you can copy and paste this, and what's really happening under the hood is, is, it's a very simple HTML and CSS that tells, it's a variable font with a single glyph, and it tells simply to basically animate that font along a variable font axis, and this came, in this case one called text, text as a time, sorry. And it's done by Lawrence Penny who either is already in the audience or is still recovering from last night, oh, I see him over there. And Lawrence, I wanted to ask you if I can show this, but since I couldn't read you early enough, now I'll just show you without asking you. You can, he updated it with colors as well, and yes, colors and variable fonts go well together. Same thing, just with colors, pretty cool. Now, this started the trend, right? So you can animate stuff, and you may or may not be aware of what Toshi Omagari did. He also took that Mybridge horse, Edward Mybridge, did those photos, I think at the end of the 19th century, if I believe, I think I'm correct me if I'm wrong. And to settle the question, are the horses hooves off the ground at one point during the gallop or not? And he did that with a series of quick photos he took. And these are, this is also a variable font, you see here. This is a single glyph. I think the upper case A, you can select it, I think you can select it, and, I don't know, then, this is an A, and paste it somewhere, right? No, I don't know, shit. And, but this is taken from an animated gif, a converted animated gif from the original photos. And if you look closely, this has been turned into a half-tone variable font. So these are lots of little squares that grow bigger and smaller in order to create the sense of, you know, darker and brighter spots. And it's a half-tone raster animated, pretty cool, right? And yes, and he heard a script that would turn an animated gif into a variable font, or like this one. Yes, yeah. So, okay, and this is a really, this is a half-tone, right? These are, all these are vectors. This is a scalable variable font. And of course, since it's a half-tone, you can do what we've always been doing with half-tones. You can give it different colors and put it on top of each other, and then you get stuff like this. So these are three letters on top of each other. Oops, sorry, there's a glitch. Yes, and if I zoom into these, you see there's three different rectangles that grow bigger and smaller. And together, additive color mixing was like a gold fish. Hey, you saw for a second, while the font was still loading, you saw the separate letters, right, in red, green, blue. So this is really three letters, A, B, C in red, green, blue. And yeah, so. But of course, this is not a very good replacement for variable, for animated GIFs because you see here, it has one font with eight megabytes, and it only has three glyphs inside, A, B, C. So I don't know. It's probably not gonna replace animated GIFs anytime soon. So, not to be outdone, in introductory workshops for glyphs, I often do things with, do stuff with, I do variable fonts now with people who take part in my workshops. And of course, to make it more fun, we can do little animations like this. So here we have a rocket, right, that can take off, and oops, there's a glitch there. It's Safari, not me, it's not in the variable font. And then we can adjust the fire. And then of course, we can animate that with that simple CSS here, and then have stuff like that. And this is a font, you can select it and copy and paste it and write with it, even if you like, I don't think it makes much sense to write with it. And of course, students get creative and ask, now, can we also put a cat in the rocket? Yes, we can. Yes, you can put cats in a rocket with variable fonts. Fantastic, right? And see, this one's going off. And this is scalable animation, right? This is vector animation, fantastic. So you can scale it to any size. And if you can put a cat in a rocket, can we also put a dog in a submarine? And yes, we can. Yes, we can. Yes, yeah, fantastic. Yes, so this is the dog. Yes, looking around, a little scared, going down. What else do we have, the laser dog? Oh, yes, and here, of course, in a couple of days ago, we had a fantastic workshop here. And what do you do in Oregon? You do a beaver. Yes, fantastic. So yes, let's see. The Oregon beaver, yeah. Yes, we had a workshop with 10 beavers done and all animated, all looking at you like this, and yes, yeah. Okay, pretty cool. Beaver workshop, fantastic. And last thing I wanna show is a project by a fellow Austin called Thomas Meyer. And he also did a proof-of-concept fund. So I'm opening this in my font editor of choice. And yeah, here we go. And he created a font with lots of pictograms that animated, right? So for instance, this one, you turn on and off the light, right? Zip. And what it actually does is, if you look closely, at one point, you see there's a little rectangle with a reverse path orientation being dragged up here, zip. But it happens so quickly here, whoop, that you think it's turning the light on and off. Fantastic. And I think I can even make this animated like this, turn the light on and off, yeah. So maybe also political metaphor, light, turn on and off. Okay, I can even do a highway pictogram, I feel like an animated, yeah, highway, that's you drive with cars on a highway, right? And that's a form of transportation that's a little, yeah, you can, all sorts of cars, of course. But of course, it's dangerous, right? So you have to be careful. Car driving, I think many, many deaths in car accidents and people injured as well. So we have to look for alternative ways of transportation. Train, for instance, or airplane, or helicopter. Not everyone can afford these. So maybe we'll stick with the boat and the fish jumping. But you have to watch out for lighthouses, of course. And it's also dangerous, right? So this is also not a safe way of transportation. Luckily, it's just a variable form, don't worry. And then you end up like this, okay. It would be great for higher order interpolation, of course. So again, a different form of transportation. I come from Austria, I'm very mountainous country. We have, this is how we go into the mountains there. But also dangerous because you can lose your hat on there. And so we stay at home in the malls. But also dangerous, you have to get off the escalators and time, otherwise you'll, yeah. So, or this one. So the big question, should we take a motorbike or should we take the bike? With variable funds, you can have both. Fantastic. Cars and buses and taxis and buses. And big cars, small cars. So, or even interpolate between a train and a bus. But these forms of transportation rely on fossil fuels. So not good. So we keep to the rocking chair, take care of the kids, of course. And remember when we were so young, we spent hours looking at these, or these things. But also very dangerous because you have to have scissors for that. And yeah, take care of the kids, animate kids pictogram and even that. This is the one thing, I've been told, if this grosses you out, you don't have kids. So, all right. We go to the playground a lot with the kids. Yeah, you spend hours. You have to work out a lot and do this. It's more fun with friends, of course. And, but when you do sports, don't lose your head and because you might end up in a wheelchair and then that's, you have to play with the kids like this and then, so this is the preferred type design exposition, stay in your seat. Don't go anywhere, it's too dangerous. Make your funds, make your variable funds. Drink a lot of coffee, drink a lot of water, of course. Be hydrated, write your proposals for Type-Con and send them off, send them really off and they will throw them away for you. And then, yeah, so, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's fake news, fake news, fake news, yeah. So I had sleepless nights until they accepted it. So, it's a stressful job, so you have to take a vacation once in a while so you go to your travel agency and I don't know what happens there, but... So be careful what you pack. Otherwise you spend a lot of time explaining to the airport security what you've been doing there but eventually you can fly off, right? Whoops. And then travel around the world and read a book once in a while, look at the year. Go for a swim and, oh, this is the pornographic section. I hope everyone's old enough, everyone's above 21, I hope. And yes, so it's so hot here, so. And don't forget to bring in, I love this one. This is the all-encompassing, this is everything. Like, so the question, what should we put on the restrooms on the outside? Now you just put the variable font, you have everything, right? So that's like, okay, last one, I love this one and actually you can put it into a complete story, actually. This guy here brings this guy home. Now this guy's at home, a safe form of transportation, of course, and then it's the end of the day and he goes home himself, yeah. So that's the end, thank you very much. And.