Most people expect type designer Ulrike Rausch is sitting down with pen and paper to design her fonts. But actually, getting from the first drawings to a working font is not a purely analog process but rather a pretty geeky software endeavor.

In her talk, Ulrike demonstrates how she combines numerous ligatures and alternative letterforms with sophisticated OpenType programming and latests font technology to produce handwriting fonts, that can hardly been recognized as a digital product anymore.