Thomas Milo

Thomas Milo is an independent scholar with a background in Slavic, Turkic and Arabic studies.

Together with Mirjam Somers and Peter Somers he is partner in DecoType – linguistic experts & designers of computer typography – a team that has been working on Arabic script technology since 1982. They pioneered the concept of Dynamic Font (Smart Font, Intelligent Font), a key aspect of all modern computer typography.

At ATypI 2013 Amsterdam Thomas Milo will be speaking at:

• European Arabic typography PART 3 - Four centuries of opinions Fri 11 Oct 1425
• The Armenian connection in Arabic type against the backdrop of downtown Amsterdam Wed 09 Oct 1215

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