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1) Subject:Karow Award for Digital Typography to Thomas Milo
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Date: 30 Oct 2009
From:<a href="mailto:blokland@dutchtypelibrary.com">blokland@dutchtypelibrary.com</a>
Subject:Karow Award for Digital Typography to Thomas Milo
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">The second Dr. Peter Karow Award for Font Technology & Digital<br>Typography has been awarded to Thomas Milo for the development of the<br>ACE layout engine (the heart of the Tasmeem plugin for InDesign ME)<br>for Arabic text setting.<br><br>The Dr. Peter Karow Award for Font Technology & Digital Typography is<br>presented once per five years to a person who makes an exceptional and<br>innovative contribution to the development of digital type and<br>typography related technology. The first Dr. Peter Karow Award was<br>presented to Dr. Peter Karow himself at the third DTL FontMaster<br>Conference at Castle Maurick in 2003. So, in this case it took<br>actually an extra year before the jury (Dr. Peter Karow, Dr. Jürgen<br>Willrodt, Peter Rosenfeld and Frank E. Blokland [chairman]) came to an<br>unanimous decision for the second award.<br><br>Thomas Milo and his company DecoType developed with ACE, which is an<br>acronym for 'Arabic Calligraphic Engine', new advanced technology for<br>Arabic text setting, which needs a far more sophisticated approach<br>than for instance the Latin script, based on a thorough analysis of<br>the Arabic script. Not only served Milo's typographic research as the<br>fundament for the ACE technology, clearly it also formed a basis for<br>the development of the OpenType format, although this is a less known<br>and acknowledged fact.<br><br>Thomas Milo's importance for the development of digital type and<br>typography is evident and in line with the position of Dr. Peter Karow<br>in the field. As one consultant of the award jury stated: 'Dr. Karow<br>made type digital in a way we know today (description of shapes as<br>outlines, rasterization, hinting, greyscaling, plus page-layout<br>improvements). Thomas Milo added the "smartness" needed for scripts<br>that ask for a more sophisticated behavior than Latin'.<br><br>On the 18th of November Dr. Peter Karow shall personally present the<br>award to Thomas Milo at the Type[&]Design 2009 conference<br><<a href="http://www.fontmaster.nl/Blogs/FMNews">http://www.fontmaster.nl/Blogs/FMNews</a>> in The Hague.<br><br>The jury of the Dr. Peter Karow Award congratulates Thomas Milo with<br>his impressive achievements!<br></span>
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