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Date Wednesday, May 10th 2023
Workshop

Let’s Make a Variable COLRv1 Font!—late morning—SOLD OUT

Lena Weber Lena Weber Sophia Tai Sophia Tai
Sorbonne University, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Pl. Jussieu. Check in 15 minutes before session start time.

11:30-13:00 GMT+2
1.5-hour late morning session

During this workshop you will learn how to make a variable color font with variable gradients. We will prepare the designs in Glyphs and then export them using the command line in Terminal. You can bring one of your own fonts to turn into a variable color font or create something experimental. I will also prepare some materials that we can use, so no need to worry if you don’t have your own font or design. To participate you will need Glyphs font editing software, for which a trial is available on the Glyphs website. You will also need to bring a MacBook to work on. This workshop is beginner-friendly.

After booking your spot you will receive a participant questionnaire. Please fill this to help us prepare and tailor the workshop to your experience level.

Workshop participants are kindly asked to bring a MacBook with: 

Optional: 

  • Bring your own typeface (or just a single letter design in vector) to turn into a COLRv1 font
  • Install gftools 0.9.15 (https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools)
  • Participants who need help with installations should arrive 5-10 minutes before the workshop starts.

Temporary Glyphs3 licenses will be available for anyone who needs them.

Workshop duration: 1.5 hours

Total number of spots available: 6

11:30-13:00 GMT+2
1.5-hour late morning session

Lena Weber
Speaker

Lena Weber

Lena Weber is a graphic system designer and creative coder working between Weimar and Berlin, focusing on the development of design tools, typographic systems and freelance work. During her studies and completion of her bachelor’s and master’s in visual communication at Bauhaus-University Weimar she positioned herself as a multidisciplinary designer, exploring the intersection of creative coding, typography, and visual research. She finds the creation of modular systems and tools to be the most satisfying way of expressing her ideas while simultaneously sharing them with others.

Her most recent project is a variable COLRv1 gradient typeface that encrypts itself graphically.

Instagram @lenaweber404

Sophia Tai
Speaker

Sophia Tai

Sophia Tai is an independent typeface designer and font developer.
She is an alumna of the MA Typeface Design course at University of Reading, a recipient of the 2021 Women of Typographic Excellence title, and member of the Alphabettes network. Her postgraduate studies focused on Latin and Tamil multiscript typeface design and Tamil script research.

Shortly after graduating, Sophia made her debut on Future Fonts and released Streco, a reversed contrast superfat display font. She also created Foldit for Google Fonts, a display color font that uses variable-gradients using COLRv1 technology.

She hosts occasional *Work & Chill* livestreams on Twitch where she works on a typeface. Sophia is a part of the Fontathon crew, a group of live-streaming typeface designers who gathered in November 2022 for a 36-hour streamathon.

Instagram @sophiatypelove

Twitter @sophiatypelove