Get a crash course in designing type from the amazing Matteo Bologna, Creative Director of award-winning studio Mucca Design. This (always sold out) workshop will introduce you to the basic skills necessary for the wild journey into the super fun world of type design.
Workshop: Type Design for Non-Type Designers
- When?
Friday, 19 October
8:30 am – 4:30 pm - Who?
Matteo Bologna (Mucca Design)
- Where?
Type Directors Club
347 West 36th Street, Suite 603
New York, NY 10018 - How much?
TDC Members: USD 275
Non-Members: USD 350 - For whom?
No prior experience is required in font design, but some experience with Bézier-based vector drawing tools (Adobe Illustrator) is useful.
- Prerequisites
You must bring your own laptop with a full or trial version of the font design program Glyphs or Glyphs Mini already installed (download a free 30-day trial). Sorry no Windows, no Fontlab, no Robofont.
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Get a crash course in designing type from Matteo Bologna, Creative Director of award-winning studio Mucca Design. This (always sold out) 6 hours workshop will introduce you to the basic skills necessary for the wild journey into the super fun world of type design.
This class will teach you the basics of designing and generating a typeface with the font-design software Glyphs (Mac only).
In the morning session we will learn the basics of drawing a font, generate the font, and use it in InDesign. In the afternoon, we will add additional letters to the font, learning how to kern them, add diacritics, and produce the combined letters. At the end of the day, we will not have a finished font, but a respectable start and hopefully you’ll be infected with the type making bug.