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