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Date Wednesday, May 10th 2023
Workshop

Parametric Type Design Done Right—full day

Filip Paldia Filip Paldia Samuel Čarnoký Samuel Čarnoký
Sorbonne University, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Pl. Jussieu. Check in 15 minutes before session start time.

09:00-17:00 GMT+2
Full-day session

The parametric approach to type design is back and better than ever! Learn how to do it right with our workshop, which teaches you how to use your favorite type design tool, Glyphs powered with LTTR/INK to achieve professional outcomes.

Early ideas of parametric type design were limited and not easily accessible to type designers. Systems like Metafont or Prototypo have prescribed sets of parameters, and customisation of the sets requires deep technical expertise.

However, with LTTR/INK, the stroke contrast plugin for Glyphs and the Variable Font preview, you can truly create parametric designs and your own parameters with little practice.

We have spent recent years developing the method — skeleton type design approach, and now we are happy to share this. You’ll learn how to use LTTR/INK and Glyphs components to create your own parametric system and develop unlimited font styles on top of your basic system. How to manage the system and export it to variable fonts or a parametric application web application.

The workshop requires participants to be familiar with Glyphs and be able to run the latest version of Glyphs 3 on their Mac computers. We will provide all necessary licenses during the workshop.

LTTR/INK parametric typeface drawn with skeletons and brushes

Please, consider having installed the following software prior to the workshop:

Workshop participants are kindly asked to bring their Mac laptops.

Workshop duration: 6 hours

Total number of spots available: 20

09:00-17:00 GMT+2
Full-day session

Filip Paldia
Speaker

Filip Paldia

Filip Paldia is a Skeleton Type Design evangelist, co-founder of LTTR/CORP, the company that produces LTTR/INK (advanced stroke engine) and a doctoral student at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia) under the supervision of Pavol Bálik. He has been working for about a decade as a user experience designer for software companies of various industry fields, such as Glyphs and Konica Minolta. Filip is actively exploring frontier improvements through intersections between design and engineering disciplines. This resulted in his doctoral project, where he is conducting research possibilities on how to train artificial neural networks for use in the type design.

Instagram @letterinkapp

Twitter @lttrcorp

Samuel Čarnoký
Speaker

Samuel Čarnoký

Samuel Čarnoký is a graduate of the Studio of Visual Communication at the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University of Košice (2006) and has held a teaching position there since 2009. In 2015, he finished doctorate study at the Faculty of Arts in Košice and during 2013–2014, Samuel completed a study stay at the Studio of Type Design and Typography at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague (Czech Republic). In terms of graphic design, he focuses on type design, typography, and editorial design. He actively cooperates with LTTR/CORP on the creation of skeleton fonts with the digital tool LTTR/INK. He is the author and co‑author of the publications about typography in Slovakia — Fonts SK: Digitized type design in Slovakia; Neon Lights and Advertising Typography in Eastern Slovakia until 1989. He has been designing and publishing own typefaces under the type foundry CarnokyType since 2010. He was awarded the Slovak Design Award 2016 and 2018 — Communication Design.

Instagram @carnokytype / @letterinkapp

Twitter @lttrcorp