Jan Charvát

Jan Charvát was born more than 30 years ago. Studied programming graphical applications at the Czech Technical University in Prague. After finishing school, he went freelance and also worked for 10 years in TV as an evening news graphic operator. He moved to Germany and worked for Monotype as a Font Engineer and there he specialised in scripting and large family production with focus on diacritics. Now back in Prague, he’s a freelancer and teacher of type theory and graphic design at two major higher education schools.