FontOps: Font Development At Scale
Two years ago, I took over the development of (and later, the technical programme management) of the Noto project, a library of nearly 250 font families spanning over 150 writing systems. Noto provides “fallback” fonts for language support on Android, iOS, MacOS and Linux - billions of devices across the planet, and for many writing systems, Noto’s fonts are the only fonts available. How on earth can we manage and maintain such a diverse and important catalogue?