The Team

Łukasz Dziedzic (on the right) with Adam Twar­doch. Photo © 2011 by Dominika Naborowska

The Lato font fam­ily was designed by Łukasz Dziedzic, a Warsaw-​​based type designer with a num­ber of retail and cus­tom font fam­i­lies to his credit (FF Clan, FF Good, FF Good Head­line, FF Mach, FF More, FF Pitu, empik, getin).

His friend Adam Twar­doch, a font devel­oper and typo­graphic activist, did some tech­ni­cal work on the final font files, some project admin­is­tra­tion, some writ­ing, and gen­er­ally tried to keep Łukasz happy.

The good folks at the Google Web Fonts lent their sup­port to the project so that the Lato fonts could be released under the SIL Open Font License (which means: they’re free!). Dave Cross­land piloted the project and has helped us with his good spirit.

All type design and most of the font tech­ni­cal work was done in Font­Lab Stu­dio 5, Łukasz’s favorite instru­ment of self-​​torture. Some True­Type auto­hint­ing was done using FreeType ttfau­to­hint by Werner Lemberg.

And smok­ing is not good for your health, unless you haven’t noticed.

11 Responses to The Team

  1. Kasper Nielsen
    2012-01-01
    at 23:50

    Hi Lato­fonts.. Love your font an i am using it on my site pok​erny​hed​erne​.com with great plea­sure.. Toough i am hav­ing a prob­lem when brows­ing a web­site with the fonts via the browser in the iphone face­book app — the fonts are not readable…

    http://​www​.lato​fonts​.com/​t​e​a​m​/fx. this site: http://​www​.google​.com/​w​e​b​f​o​n​t​s​/​s​p​e​c​i​m​e​n​/​L​ato

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  2. Darek
    2012-01-05
    at 15:12

    Witam, czy jest szansa na pow­stanie fontu Lato z pol­skimi znakami?
    Bardzo prosze o info.

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  3. windhamdavid
    2012-01-27
    at 15:16

    smok­ers are cool. Thanks for the Font. It’s super-​​duper nice!

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  5. Marcin
    2012-02-27
    at 10:56

    Font jest przepiękny

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  6. Paul Neal
    2012-03-14
    at 20:03

    Thanks again for this won­der­ful font. I use it for all my let­ters, cor­re­spon­dence, and my CV where i feel the bal­ance is just per­fect. I’ve also replaced all my sys­tem fonts on iOS with Lato. It’s tak­ing over my life…

    Warm Regards
    Paul

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  7. Isolde Carrasco
    2012-03-28
    at 16:50

    Hello! First of all, con­grat­u­la­tions on a beau­ti­ful Font! We are actu­ally inter­ested in using it in our new cor­po­rate web­page, and stum­bled on a browser prob­lem: the Litos Ultra-​​Bold 900 looks fine in every browser we tested (Safari, Chrome, Fire­fox) with excep­tion of Explorer 9. Is there a solu­tion to this? Thank you in advance!!

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  8. Isolde Carrasco
    2012-03-28
    at 16:51

    Hello! First of all, con­grat­u­la­tions on a beau­ti­ful Font! We are actu­ally inter­ested in using it in our new cor­po­rate web­page, and stum­bled on a browser prob­lem: the Lato Ultra-​​Bold 900 looks fine in every browser we tested (Safari, Chrome, Fire­fox) with excep­tion of Explorer 9. Is there a solu­tion to this? Thank you in advance!!

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  9. Carla
    2012-04-26
    at 17:47

    Hey, Łukasz
    I’m cur­rently a 3rd year Mul­ti­me­dia design stu­dent, and I was given a brief to cre­ate a CMS web­site ded­i­cated to a type­face, the web­site has to reflect the mean­ing of the typeface.

    I came across your type­face, and decided to use it for my project– I was hop­ing that I could maybe get a lit­tle more infor­ma­tion from you about the Lato font, such as: inspi­ra­tion for the design, design process, and ratio­nale.
    Thanks, Carla :)

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  10. Marc
    2012-04-29
    at 09:23

    Con­grat­u­la­tion to this wun­der­ful font! I ♥ Lato!!! It’s great!

    Thanks a lot for shar­ing this font!

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