This workshop marks the global launch of the Wikitype Kickstarter campaign—an open, multilingual, and collaborative platform dedicated to the classification of typefaces. Wikitype seeks to create a dynamic online educational platform where designers, researchers and educators can contribute to, refine, and expand a shared typographic taxonomy that reflects the diversity of global scripts. The session… Continue reading Wikitype
Experience the new Counterpunch font editor through a hands-on introduction to browser-based font design. Participants will learn how to create and edit glyphs, build variable fonts, preview OpenType features with real-time HarfBuzz shaping, and explore efficient workflows for both Latin and complex-script type design. The workshop also introduces component editing, dynamic glyph filters, Python automation,… Continue reading Counterpunch in Practice: Designing Variable Fonts in the Browser
This demo-lecture tests the role of calligraphic features like Arabic ligatures in reading performance, examined through the framework of disfluency theory. Current PhD design research investigates the typographic potential of ligatures on how different levels of visual complexity affect comprehension, reading speed, and the reader’s overall engagement with text. The research proposes that the desirable… Continue reading A Practical legibility Journey Towards Understanding Perceptual Difficulty in reading Arabic ligatures
What if you could design with a script you don’t know how to read? This workshop invites participants to explore Tamil—a 2000-year-old script—through drawing, rhythm, and play.No prior knowledge of Tamil is needed. Through guided exercises, participants will learn to see Tamil letters as shapes and patterns rather than barriers. We will begin with simple… Continue reading Drawing Between Scripts: A Tamil Lettering Lab
Launched in 2011, The Typecraft Initiative, develops a range of display typefaces based on the rich crafts and indigenous arts of South Asia and beyond. The aim of the workshop is to look at non-Western sources of inspiration for lettering, typography, and type design beyond Modernism and the Bauhaus. Participants will learn how to decode… Continue reading Typecrafting South Asian Crafts
This 2-hour practice-based workshop investigates the speculative potential of typographic form through systematic constraint manipulation. Participants engage in iterative transformation of a single Tifinagh character— zay, which signifies “free human” in Tamazight—across six discrete temporal exercises, each imposing specific material, conceptual, or contextual restrictions.The methodology employs timed constraint protocols (six 15-minute cycles) that prompt participants… Continue reading One Letter, Six Lives in Tifinagh
Learn drawing techniques and understand letter structure from a graffiti writing context to enhance your type and lettering work. This workshop focuses on graffiti pieces and the rich subculture of graffiti writers—a tradition of letterforms that originated on New York City subways in the 1970s. Through drawing exercises, history lessons, and demonstrations, participants will learn… Continue reading Graffiti Concepts for Type People
Launched in 2011, The Typecraft Initiative, develops a range of display typefaces based on the rich crafts and indigenous arts of South Asia and beyond. The aim of the workshop is to look at non-Western sources of inspiration for lettering, typography, and type design beyond Modernism and the Bauhaus. Participants will learn how to decode… Continue reading Typecrafting: Creating Type from South Asian Crafts
Participants will gain practical insight into how typographic conventions differ across languages and learn how to confidently handle different types of typesetting themselves – from single-language texts to complex multilingual publications. Typofix is a tool for detecting and correcting typographic errors in texts in up to 24 languages. It helps unify typographic rules throughout the… Continue reading Typofix Workshop
Football kits are some of the most-seen typography on earth. Worn by athletes, printed on millions of shirts, broadcast to billions of screens — the letters and numbers on a jersey carry the weight of national identity, collective pride, and cultural passion. Yet kit typography is rarely treated as serious typographic practice. This workshop changes… Continue reading Football is Type! Designing Football Kit Typography