April 16 @ 11 AM EDT.
Fonts in Practice: Avoiding Common Mistakes in Installation & Management
A practical look at the hidden issues slowing down your creative workflow.
Installation mistakes, format confusion, and poor font management don’t just create small inconveniences — they can lead to broken layouts, version conflicts, and unnecessary production delays.
If you’ve ever opened a file and seen fonts missing or layouts shift unexpectedly, you’ve experienced how disruptive these issues can be.
In this live session, we’ll take a closer look at where these issues come from and how to prevent them. You’ll learn:
- How installation choices and font formats impact your work.
- Why fonts behave differently across platforms and environments.
- What to check before and after installing fonts.
- How to avoid missing fonts, layout shifts, and version conflicts.
- Practical ways to improve font management across your team.
We’ll close the session with a live Q&A, so you can get answers to your specific questions.
Executive Creative Director
Terrance Weinzierl
Terrance has more than 15 years of experience creating custom typefaces for tech giants, global brands, video games, and automotive companies. His work bridges art and technology, helping teams solve visual and technical challenges through thoughtful typography. He has created original retail typefaces such as Monarda and Kairos Sans, inspired by his lettering practice. Terrance often describes himself as a librarian of type, helping people around the world choose and pair typefaces.
Jay Loo — Global Typographic Experience Director
Jay Loo
With over 14 years at Monotype spanning type support, pre-sales engineering, and global pre-sales leadership Jay has built his career at the intersection of typographic craft and enterprise commerce. As Global Typographic Experience Director, he serves as Monotype's senior strategic advisor to its most valuable accounts, helping the world's leading brands unlock the full value of typography. Known internally and across the industry as Monotype's resident font nerd, Jay brings equal parts deep typographic passion and real-world business expertise to every customer engagement, and is a familiar face at industry events across the design and technology community.