SAVE THE DATE! From zero to a hundred in a weekend: get a fun 2-day crash course in type design with Matteo Bologna and Glyphs evangelist Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer.
Workshop: Typeface Design for Non-Type Designers
- When?
Saturday, January 27th, from 9am to 5pm ET
Sunday, January 28th, from 9am to 5pm ET - Who?
Matteo Bologna
Rainer Scheichelbauer - Where?
Salotto
84 Withers St FL1
Brooklyn 11211
New York - 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 350 for Saturday only
USD 500 for both days
Discounts available for early birds: −20% until January 2nd, 2024. - Language
English
- Prerequisites
- Your Mac with Glyphs 3 preinstalled.
- No prior experience is required in font design, but some experience with Bézier-based vector drawing tools is useful.
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t.b.a., reserve the date!
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. (You can purchase a one-day ticket for this day only).
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.
Classes and workshops will take place from 10 am to 5…ish pm EST with a 1 hour lunch break.
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.