Our programs: Type Design & Typography | Font Engineering & Glyphs
Type Design & Typography
Intro to Greek Type Design
with Irene Vlachou
Ideal for anyone interested in Greek type design. No advance knowledge of Greek or type design required.
Lettering to Font Workshop
with Francis Chouquet
In this fun, two-day workshop, you will learn how to transform any lettering into a professional font.
Mastering Web Typography
with Elliot Jay Stocks
For those wanting to up their typographic game, join this interactive two-day workshop.
Intro to Latin Type Design
with Malou Verlomme
For anyone interested in Latin type design. No advance knowledge of type design is required.
Intro to Arabic Type Design
with Dr Nadine Chahine
No advance knowledge of either Arabic or type design is required. Beginners from a design background welcome.
Arabic Type Design (Intermediate)
with Dr Nadine Chahine
For those who have already taken an intro course with Nadine, or are at beginner level and would like to advance their skills.
Intro to Cyrillic Type Design
with Aleksandra Samuļenkova
For anyone who’s interested in learning about the Cyrillic script, or for those interested in expanding their type design skills.
دورة تمهيدية في تصميم الخط العربي الطباعي
مع د. ندين شاهين: ربيع ٢٠٢٣
تتألف هذه الدورة التمهيدية من ٢٤ ساعة من التدريس موزعة على ٤ أشهر وهي متاحة لأي شخص مهتم بتصميم الخط العربي! يحتاج المشاركون إلى خلفية قوية في مبادئ التصميم الغرافيكي وبرامجه. يتم تدريس الدورة باللغة العربية.
Intro to Script Type Design
with Ulrike Rausch
You’ll learn how to turn your lettering & calligraphy into a font. Ulrike Rausch introduces you to the Glyphs font editor, and will guide you through the process of creating your first authentic script typeface.
Workshop: Typeface Design for Non-Type Designers
with Matteo Bologna & Rainer Scheichelbauer
Ever wanted to design your own typeface? In this two-day class, you’ll learn the basics of designing & generating a variable font with Glyphs app.
Font Engineering & Glyphs
Glyphs Kerning & Spacing
with Rainer Scheichelbauer
This course introduces you to efficient spacing and kerning workflows in Glyphs, including automating. 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 recommended.
Font Engineering
with Rainer Scheichelbauer
A sound introduction to font engineering. By the end, you’ll understand how an OpenType font works internally, be able to edit a .glyphs file, manipulate a CFF and TTF post-export, produce variable fonts, and learn to track down & fix tech issues. (And you can book a parallel Python workshop.)
Glyphs Python Crash Course
with Rainer Scheichelbauer
A 6-hour course introducing you to Python for font engineering. It will teach you to read and modify existing Python code, and get you started writing your own code from scratch. Special attention is given to automating tasks in Glyphs. You can also book this course as an add-on to the Font Engineering course.
Variable Fonts Workshop
with Rainer Scheichelbauer
Finally make the move from static to variable font design! You’ll learn to create your own variable fonts, including drawing for delta interpolation, setting up axes, masters and instances, making the most of OpenType features for variable fonts, and much more!
Advanced Post-Production
with Rainer Scheichelbauer
Take control of your compiled OpenType font after exporting from Glyphs, and automate post-production. Topics covered: Manipulate fonts with FontTools/ttxl; build your own command-line tools; set up fontbakery tests; & write shell scripts for automating post-production.
Workshop: Color Fonts
with Rainer Scheichelbauer
In this two-day workshop, you will learn about all major color font formats and how they are implemented in Glyphs. You’ll also learn about their potentials and their limits, and how to prepare a design for multiple formats. Everything you need to know to get started designing color fonts!
Glyphs Power Up Workshop
with Rainer Scheichelbauer
Take your Glyphs skills to the next level with a half-day session loaded with tips, tricks and the gems hidden in the depths of your favorite font editor. Topics covered include: paths, harmonizing, batch-editing, extensions, components, and much more!
Glyphs Hinting
with Rainer Scheichelbauer
This course introduces 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.
Type quotes…
“Letters in a typeface are always speaking to one another. The type designer’s role is to orchestrate that conversation.” — Dr Nadine Chahine (CEO, ILT)
“Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.”
— Hermann Zapf
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