Yanone
Biography
Yanone grew up in Germany and Ethiopia in a family with an engineering background and began learning to program on an IBM 286 at 13. He studied at Bauhaus University Weimar and the Type and Media program at KABK, and worked at FontShop International in Berlin. After designing a bilingual typeface for Amman he lived in Jordan for five years, where he met his wife and contributed to FF DIN Arabic. He is now based in Berlin, combining software development skills with practical experience in Arabic typography to create fonts and related tools.