's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, 26 October 2009

Frank Blokland reports:

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.

For more information and to give your own congratulations: http://typophile.com/node/63486