Meet us at ATypI 2018 in the city of Rubens, the beautiful Belgian town of Antwerp! We will be on and around the premises for the complete conference, and hold a workshop on the first day, and a small presentation on the second day. See you there!
Workshop: Producing TT-based Webfonts in Glyphs
- When?
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
9:30-12:30 (half-day workshop) - Who?
Rainer Scheichelbauer
Georg Seifert - Where?
AP Hogeschool
Campus Spoor Noord - How much?
Free (included in the conference registration)
- For whom?
- Prerequisites
Bring your MacBook with Glyphs 2 preinstalled.
- Links
Many designers still rely on third parties for TT and webfont production. This workshop shows how easy it is to take control of this issue, and empowers designers so they can take more production matters in their own hands.
Workshop: Producing Color Variable Fonts in Glyphs
- When?
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
14:30-17:30 (half-day workshop) - Who?
Rainer Scheichelbauer
Georg Seifert - Where?
AP Hogeschool
Campus Spoor Noord - How much?
Free (included in the conference registration)
- For whom?
- Prerequisites
Bring your MacBook with Glyphs 2 preinstalled. No prior knowledge of the software required.
- Links
So you have created variable fonts, and you have created color fonts. But have you tried color variable fonts yet? In this workshop, you will learn how to set up a color font, draw an emoji, and make it variable.
Lecture: The German Sharp S
- When?
Wednesday, 12 September
Time: 14:30 h - Who?
Bruno Maag (Dalton Maag)
Rainer Scheichelbauer (Glyphs) - Where?
- How much?
Included in the conference registration
- For whom?
- Prerequisites
- Links
https://www.atypi.org/conferences/antwerp-2018/programme/activity?a=766
Opinions can differ greatly among type designers and typographers when it comes to decisions about letter shapes. One of the most contested letters in that respect is the German sharp S, even more so its cap variant, and even more so among native speakers of German. Recent publications such as Hermann Schmidt Verlag’s ‘niße’ book, the addition of the cap sharp S to Unicode and most recently also to official German orthography, show that there is ample need for discussion. In this double presentation, an opinionated Swiss and an opinionated Austrian will discuss this letter, possible and not so possible shapes, good and bad design decisions, and will probably fail at the attempt of settling all questions once and for all.