Arabic-L:GEN:Karow Award for Digital Typography to Thomas Milo

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Date: 30 Oct 2009
From:blokland at dutchtypelibrary.com
Subject:Karow Award for Digital Typography to Thomas Milo

The second Dr. Peter Karow Award for Font Technology & Digital
Typography has been awarded to Thomas Milo for the development of the
ACE layout engine (the heart of the Tasmeem plugin for InDesign ME)
for Arabic text setting.

The Dr. Peter Karow Award for Font Technology & Digital Typography is
presented once per five years to a person who makes an exceptional and
innovative contribution to the development of digital type and
typography related technology. The first Dr. Peter Karow Award was
presented to Dr. Peter Karow himself at the third DTL FontMaster
Conference at Castle Maurick in 2003. So, in this case it took
actually an extra year before the jury (Dr. Peter Karow, Dr. Jürgen
Willrodt, Peter Rosenfeld and Frank E. Blokland [chairman]) came to an
unanimous decision for the second award.

Thomas Milo and his company DecoType developed with ACE, which is an
acronym for 'Arabic Calligraphic Engine', new advanced technology for
Arabic text setting, which needs a far more sophisticated approach
than for instance the Latin script, based on a thorough analysis of
the Arabic script. Not only served Milo's typographic research as the
fundament for the ACE technology, clearly it also formed a basis for
the development of the OpenType format, although this is a less known
and acknowledged fact.

Thomas Milo's importance for the development of digital type and
typography is evident and in line with the position of Dr. Peter Karow
in the field. As one consultant of the award jury stated: 'Dr. Karow
made type digital in a way we know today (description of shapes as
outlines, rasterization, hinting, greyscaling, plus page-layout
improvements). Thomas Milo added the "smartness" needed for scripts
that ask for a more sophisticated behavior than Latin'.

On the 18th of November Dr. Peter Karow shall personally present the
award to Thomas Milo at the Type[&]Design 2009 conference
<http://www.fontmaster.nl/Blogs/FMNews> in The Hague.

The jury of the Dr. Peter Karow Award congratulates Thomas Milo with
his impressive achievements!

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