Expanding Raleway to Support Accessible Tech with Michael Young

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This episode features a conversation with Toronto-based designer, developer and accessibility specialist, Michael Young. His graduate level research involves making technology more accessible, specifically through the expansion of Raleway; an open source Google font used in communications by the Ontario Government.

In this episode you’ll hear more about Michael’s gateway into this work, hear about the Syllabic writing system, and what Unicode is in plain language. You’ll hear what it was like for Michael to embark on a journey of font creation for the first time, including what surprised him the most and what challenged him most in the process. You’ll learn about typographic tofu and hear helpful resources related to typography for Indigenous language support.

If you’d like to see some of the visuals related to what’s discussed in this episode, please check out the show notes at www.talkpaperscissors.info.

This conversation is part of a guest lecture series in GCM 230 - Typography at The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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