Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo (Unifranz) es sede de Nexus Creative Week, una semana de innovación en diseño:
“Con este evento queremos celebrar el Día Internacional del Diseño Gráfico y pretendemos desafiar a los diseñadores en formación a reflexionar profundamente sobre el propósito de recalcar la importancia de la profesión, su contribución dentro de sus entornos locales y su valor social”, explica la directora de Diseño Gráfico y Producción Crossmedia de Unifranz La Paz y organizadora del evento Iyorbanka Cuiza.
¡Explora el mundo del lettering y la tipografía de la mano de una experta reconocida a nivel nacional e internacional!
Ana Michel, reconocida directora de arte, llega a la Nexus Creative Week para enseñarte desde las bases caligráficas hasta la creación digital de tus propios diseños tipográficos.
Version 1.4 of the revolutionary and popular LTTR/INK tool is out. Get it while it is hot.
LTTR/INK 1.4 is available for download, and its main attraction is the new Stroke Styles Window: a handy tool that makes it way easier to manage your nibs and stroke styles across your font projects. Now, instead of hunting around for the perfect settings, you can create, name, edit, and apply stroke styles all in one place, saving you time and keeping your designs consistent.
Part of ILT Academy, this course will introduce you to efficient hinting workflows for both CFF and TTF scenarios in Glyphs, including setting up for autohinting algorithms.
ILT Academy: Glyphs Hinting
When?
Tuesday and Thursdays, 29 May, 3, 5, 10 and 12 June 2025,
5 sessions with 10 hours in total
Who?
Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer
For whom?
The course is open to a maximum of 15 participants.
How much?
£450 + 20% VAT (if applicable)
Language
English
Prerequisites
Participants will need to join the sessions via a Zoom link. A Mac (macOS 10.15 or later recommended) with Glyphs 3 and a stable internet connection is required.
This course will introduce you to efficient hinting workflows for both CFF and TTF scenarios in Glyphs, including setting up for autohinting algorithms. We will especially focus on potential pitfalls, how to find and fix them, or how to avoid them from the start. Familiarity with Glyphs.app essential; basic knowledge of Python useful but not required.
Type Design Club adalah sebuah program gagasan antara Tegamitype Foundry dan The Public Case untuk memperkenalkan disiplin ilmu desain huruf secara praktikal. Program ini terbuka bagi semua yang tertarik untuk mendalami proses perancangan typeface. Tujuan dari program ini adalah untuk membekali peserta dengan ilmu, kemampuan dan pengalaman mendesain huruf agar dapat menerapkannya secara mandiri.
Type Design Club 2025
When?
07 June to 20 September 2025
Who?
Iqbal Firdaus (Tegamitype)
Aditya Wiraatmaja (The Public Case)
For whom?
Desainer Grafis, Pengajar, Mahasiswa DKV, atau siapapun yang tertarik untuk mempelajari dasar-dasar typeface design
How much?
IDR 5.800.000 for Public
IDR 5.300.000 for Early Birds
IDR 3.000.000 for Students
Language
Indonesian
Prerequisites
Prerequisites (prior knowledge, things to bring):
Mengerti dasar tipografi
Pengalaman menggambar dengan bézier curves atau pen tools (adobe illustrator)
Type Design Club akan diadakan kembali tahun ini selama 14 minggu. Peserta akan diperkenalkan dengan teori-teori dan konsep dasar type design dimulai dari sketsa hingga implementasi akhir. Melalui sesi presentasi, tanya jawab, dan kritik (instruktur & tamu), peserta diajak untuk aktif terlibat dalam diskusi dan menerapkan langsung ilmu dengan merancang sebuah typeface yang fungsional.
Type Design Club is a learning space that supports and promotes typeface design in Indonesia. Since 2022, we’ve organized programs focused on Latin and Indonesian traditional scripts. Our goal is to share knowledge, build connections, and foster collaboration within the local typography community.
This 14-week course is open to anyone interested in learning how to design original Latin letterforms. It combines theory and practice, covering core principles and techniques—from sketching ideas to exporting a usable font.
Through lectures, Q&A sessions, and group critiques, participants will explore the type design process in an interactive setting. By the end of the course, each student will develop a functional and uniquely crafted typeface.
Re-installing a font in Font Book can create font cache troubles. Here is how to avoid it.
If you want to test your font in a real-life situation, and you are thinking about Adobe apps, well, then you can use the Adobe Fonts folder, and avoid cache problems from the start. Congratulations: You do not need to read any further, you are done!
Same for users of Affinity Publisher, by the way: Set your export folder to ~/Library/Application Support/Affinity Publisher 2/AffinityFonts and you’re good.
Testing in macOS apps
But let us assume you decided to test your font in an application like TextEdit or Word. So, you install it in the system by either opening it in Apple’s Font Book app, or by using a third-party font manager, or by simply dragging the font file into ~/Library/Fonts/.
Well, you shouldn’t.
Why not? Because installing a font with the same name as a previously installed one can seriously mess up your font caches. Caches are collections of previously calculated data. They can speed up your computer because it does not have to reprocess the original information every time. Likewise, font caches allow your Mac to speed up the use of installed fonts because all the stuff your Mac had to calculate to make your font appear on the screen, has already been done.
But, of course, if the original font has changed, and the font cache does not know about it, then the data stored in it is outdated and most likely wrong. Typical symptoms include:
The font menu does not show your font anymore
Glyphs do not appear at all
Changes you made in the font do not appear on the screen
Glyphs appear garbled and messed up on screen
You type one letter, but a different one appears
Paragraphs do not reflow properly
Your font does not print, or prints wrong or garbled letters
Or any other font weirdness, really.
Cleaning caches
If this happens to you, delete the font from Font Book or whatever third-party utility you use. Important: Don’t just deactivate it, REMOVE IT. Afterwards, you have two options:
First line of defence: restart with Shift
Restart your Mac while holding down your Shift key until it says ‘Safe Mode’ on your screen. Starting with Shift should cause your Mac to delete and rebuild its caches, amongst which the font cache. Once your login screen comes up, log in to your user, and restart again, this time without the Shift key.
Important: restarting twice is essential, because the first restart (with Shift) deletes the root of all evil, the font cache. But because it is starting in Safe Mode, some kernel extensions are not loaded, and your Mac may not appear as performant and snappy as usual. So, the second restart (without Shift) boots your Mac normally again.
Your Mac may be a little busy for a while, so you may see more HD and CPU action for a few minutes. That is OK, because it is rebuilding its caches.
Make Apple Type Server clean its database
Should this not help, or if you simply want to avoid restarting twice, open up your Terminal.app (you can find it in /Applications/Utilities/) and type (or copy and paste) the following commands. If you type them, each line must be finished by pressing the Return key; if you paste them, you may need to press Return to confirm the entry of the third line. The first code line will prompt you for your password. Attention, you will not see ‘passphrase bullets’ (•••) indicating the password length. Type it anyway and confirm by pressing the Return key:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
atsutil server -shutdown
atsutil server -ping
And now, restart your Mac. No, really, open the Apple menu in the top left corner and choose Restart. Don’t think you can get away without a restart, otherwise the trouble will reappear. And you really do not want that, do you? OK, restart your Mac.
Cleaning caches with an AppleScript
Since you are on a Mac, you can put these exact commands in an AppleScript, and make it conveniently available in the Script menu. Thus, you do not need to remember the Terminal voodoo or go looking for this blogpost again.
OK, let’s do this. In Finder, Choose Go > Utilities (Cmd-Shift-U) and double click the app called Script Editor:
Make a new script with File > New (Cmd-N), and copy and paste this into the new window:
try
do shell script "sudo atsutil databases -remove" with administrator privileges
on error errMsg number errNum
display dialog "Font cache error " & errNum & ": " & errMsg
end try
do shell script "atsutil server -shutdown"
do shell script "atsutil server -ping"
set buttonAnswer to text of button returned of (display dialog "It is strongly recommended that you restart your Mac, or at least log out and back in again." with title "Font caches cleaned" with icon caution buttons {"Restart", "Log out", "Later"} default button 3)
if buttonAnswer is "Log out" then
tell application "System Events" to log out
else if buttonAnswer is "Restart" then
tell application "System Events" to restart
end if
Click on the button with the hammer icon (Compile the Script) to verify the code. The code should now be syntax-coloured:
Save the script in your User Scripts folder. To do that, choose File > Move To…, and in the dialog that follows, press Cmd-Shift-G to bring up the Go to the Folder dialog. Here, you copy and paste this line:
~/Library/Scripts/
When you do that, it will probably look something like this:
Press Go, and the Move To dialog shows the User Scripts folder, which is where we want to move our script. So you can safely press Move now.
Don’t forget to rename it to something that makes sense. Choose File > Rename… and call it Clean Font Caches.scpt or something like that. When you are done with that, turn on your Script menu, so you can easily access your AppleScript whenever you need it. To do that, access the preferences via Script Editor > Preferences (Cmd-comma), go to the General tab of the Preferences window, and make sure the checkbox next to Show Script menu in menu bar is on:
In the top right corner of your screen, your Mac displays a range of menu bar items. One of them is the Script menu. It allows you to run AppleScripts saved in special folders, one of them being ~/Library/Scripts/. So, when you click on it, you should see the AppleScript we just saved there:
Now you can:
remove the font from your system, e.g., in Font Book,
run the script (via the AppleScript menu) to clean your font caches,
restart your Mac (the script gives you an option to do that right away),
install the new version of your font, and start using it without issues.
Workarounds Avoid cache problems
There are a few simple ways to actually avoid the cache problems in the first place.
Firstly, as mentioned at the beginning, you can test your fonts in specific DTP apps that offer special font folders that they are monitoring continuously. If you are running Affinity Publisher 2, for instance, set your export folder to ~/Library/Application Support/Affinity Publisher 2/AffinityFonts. Or if you want to test your fonts in Adobe apps, they have a special Fonts folder. Fonts saved into these folders are active in the respective apps right away, and, most importantly, they are not cached.
Secondly, if you really have to test your font in the system, then change the Family Name every time you install the font. You can extend the name by a number or a letter. Since the font caches are linked to the font name, a new installation of the font with a different name will not conflict with a previous installation. Only downside: after a few iterations, you will clutter your font menu to a point where it becomes difficult to handle. Workaround: see Nico Hagenburger’s script solution further below.
Thirdly, and probably best of all, use specialized apps, like our little TextPreview tool we created for just that purpose. It can watch a folder for new fonts added to it, and make them available in the app without installing them. Look into special testing software like link: /tools/fontgoggles text: FontGoggles) or FontProofer for serious large-volume text testing.
Great for testing in Mac apps like TextEdit and Pages: Use the Test Install option in the File > Export dialog. It will write the font export directly into memory, where it can be overwritten easily as well. For the font to show up in your font menu, you may need to restart an app. The fonts stay available until you log out or restart your Mac.
For the toughest amongst you, test in Windows. Windows never had font cache issues. You can just reinstall the font, and boom, it updates in all apps. Windows has had a lot of other issues though. But there are ways around them.
With caution: Update your macOS to version 15 or later. Apple seems to have significantly improved font cache handling in its most recent OS versions. You may occasionally still need to restart an app, but simply reinstalling a (new version of a) font appears to work just fine most of the time.
Smart workaround Export with unique file names
Nico Hagenburger found out that the macOS font cache depends on the file name of the font file. So if you make sure that the OTF you export has a different file name every time you export, and you delete all previous versions, you should be fine. Nico was so nice to write a Python script called Export and Install that does exactly that. Click the link to open the script in Plugin Manager.
SAMPLE FONT: ALENA BY ROLAND STIEGER
Update 2013-07-04: clarified where to delete the font.
Update 2014-06-16: removed the superfluous user-specific cache-cleaning, the sudo line removes all caches.
Update 2016-01-02: added link to Adobe Fonts Folder tutorial.
Update 2016-02-19: updated screenshots for Glyphs 2.
Update 2017-06-04: partial rewrite for better clarity, new screenshots, added TextPreview.
Update 2018-06-06: added ‘Workaround: Export with Changing File Names’. (Thx Nico!)
Update 2019-02-25: added ‘Restart with Shift’.
Update 2020-08-23: added link to Nico Hagenburger’s Medium article.
Update 2022-08-03: updated title and link, related articles, minor (re)formatting.
Update 2025-06-07: added Affinity font folder (thx Carolina); more notes on font caches and workarounds, including notes about macOS 15 and later.
‘Dans ce stage de deux jours, nous apprenons à maitriser Glyphs et son interface pour constituer un projet de création typographique.’
Formation Glyphs
When?
Jeudi 11 et vendredi 12 décembre 2025
Who?
Anton Moglia
For whom?
Ce stage s'adresse à des graphistes expérimentés qui ont une bonne connaissance des courbes de bézier et qui souhaitent approfondir leurs connaissances en créant leurs propres polices de caractères. Une bonne culture visuelle et des notions en typographie facilitera l’accès à cette formation.
Maîtriser l'interface du logiciel Glyphs pour la création de caractères typographiques (signes de base, notion de famille, finalisation des fontes).
PROGRAMME:
1. Structurer un projet de création numérique de caractères
Définir la place de Glyphs dans le processus de travail d’un créatif
Acquérir une méthode de travail
Comprendre la nécessité d'une bonne préparation des éléments sources en amont
Connaître la finalité des fichiers réalisés avec Glyphs
Etude de cas : analyse de projets
2. Comprendre les principes de Glyphs
Maîtriser le vocabulaire
Préparer le dessin dans Glyphs
Se repérer dans l'interface : menus, outils et palettes
Appliquer les bases du dessin typographique vectoriel
Exercice : réaliser des signes de base (un jeu de 26 caractères et ponctuation simple)
3. Réaliser un caractère typographique
Apprendre à placer des ancres
Réaliser rapidement des signes accentués
Développer des jeux de caractères réalistes
Définir et régler les approches
Développer et prolonger l'usage de Glyphs (kerning, alternates)
Exercice : ajouter des lettres accentuées, réaliser le spacing d'un alphabet, réaliser une seconde version des lettres dessinées précédemment (étende la famille : gras, light...)
4. Finaliser un caractère typographique
Renseigner les fontes infos
Design itératif : générer, installer, contrôler des fontes
Planifier le développement d'une typographie
Exercice : exporter des versions print et Web, exporter un PDF de contrôle, et créer un spécimen !
Este workshop é uma oportunidade fantástica para começar a projetar tipografias. Vá além de escolher as mesmas fontes do menu tipográfico e comece a criar a sua própria! Nesta aula, você aprenderá o básico do design e da geração de uma fonte usando o software de design tipográfico Glyphs (exclusivo para Mac).
From zero to a hundred in two days: get a fun crash course in type design with Matteo Bologna and Glyphs evangelist Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer.
Workshop: Typeface Design for Non-Type Designers
When?
Sun–Mon, June 29–30, 2025
10am–6pm
Who?
Matteo Bologna
Rainer Scheichelbauer
Where?
Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square (Entrance on E 7th Street)
New York, NY
For whom?
Anyone interested in dipping their toes in type design. No prior knowledge whatsoever necessary. If you have used Illustrator before, that will make it easier for you.
How much?
USD 625 Those with in-person tickets to the main Typographics conference are eligible for a 10% discount.
In this two-day class, you will learn the basics of designing and generating a variable font with the font-design software Glyphs (Mac only). Go beyond choosing the same typefaces from the type menu to creating your own!
On the first day, we will learn the basics of drawing a font, generate the font, and use it in an Adobe app or a web browser. In the afternoon, we will add additional letters to the font, learning how to space them, add diacritics and punctuation.
On the second day, we will add more letters, design a bold version of the same typeface, create a variable font—and make it animate in a web browser. At the end of the class, you will probably not have a finished font, but a respectable start and a deep understanding about how fonts are made. And maybe you’ll become a type design addict. You have been warned.
Embark on a one-of-a-kind journey into the world of Devanagari type design. This course will guide you through the intricacies of turning your idea into a working Devanagari typeface with the help of type design professionals.
Practica Devanagari Two: Introduction to Devanagari type design
When?
Wednesdays and Fridays, August 6–November 7, 2025
Wednesday's classes are 2.5 hours. Friday classes are 1.5 hours.
Classes begin at 7:30pm Mumbai, 4pm Berlin, 10am New York time.
43.5 total course hours, live classes held over Zoom. Students should expect to spend roughly six hours a week on homework or research outside of class.
Who?
Kimya Gandhi (Mota Italic) – Lead instructor
Lipi Raval (Typeface designer) – Visiting critic
Liang Hai (Typotheque) – Visiting instructor
Vaibhav Singh (type.land) – Visiting instructor
For whom?
Students are expected to have prior experience with the Devanagari script and a solid idea for a typeface they want to create before starting the course.
How much?
Starting at USD 1250, payment plans available. Enrollment opens July 17, 2025.
Language
English
Prerequisites
Mac with Glyphs preinstalled. Internet connection, a layout program like Affinity Publisher or InDesign. Zoom, Miro, and Discord accounts (free).
Quickly move from basic letterform construction to exploring foundational typeface design concepts — like workflow, spacing, proportions and creating systems in Devanagari typefaces. Students will get plenty of personalized feedback on their typefaces, as well as the support and collaboration of their peers. Join us to develop your own Devanagari typeface, be inspired by our amazing guest lecturers, and connect with a community of passionate designers.
What you’ll learn:
Understanding of the construction and proportions of Devanagari letterforms
Expanding character sets and building a foundation for a complete typeface
Creating a coherent visual system
Insight into research and professional type design practices
Increasing efficacy and time management when designing a Devanagari typeface
Understanding and applying typographic principles specific to the Devanagari script
You will get plenty of personalized feedback on their typefaces, as well as the support and collaboration of their peers. Join us to develop your own Devanagari typeface, be inspired by our amazing guest lecturers, and connect with a community of passionate designers.
Class schedule:
Aug 6: 10 min individual meeting with Kimya, no formal class
Aug 15: Course introduction, lecture: Possibilities of Devanagari typefaces
Aug 20: Project introductions and initial design direction discussion
Aug 22: Demo: Review of type design process in Glyphs
Aug 27: Feedback session: basic consonants and vowels
Aug 29: Lecture: Setting up test documents and testing techniques
Sep 3: Feedback session: advanced consonants and vowels
Sep 5: Guest lecture: Research-based type design projects
Sep 10: Feedback session: anchors and marks
Sep 12: Lecture: The world of conjuncts
Sept 17: Feedback session: conjuncts part 1
Sept 19: Lecture: Basic Devanagari feature building; short guest lecture on font production
Sept 24: Feedback session: conjuncts part 2
Sept 26: Individual feedback sessions, no formal class
Oct 1: Individual feedback sessions, no formal class
Oct 3: Flex session: Q&A
Oct 8: Feedback session: texture and spacing
Oct 10: Lecture: Language alternates, numbers and punctuation
Oct 15: Feedback session: numbers and alternates
Oct 17: Guest lecture: Business of Indic type design
Oct 29: Feedback session: numbers and alternates
Oct 31: Lecture: Interpolations and pushing boundaries
