AI for type design does not need to happen in the cloud. Small models run on a laptop, and a PC with a good GPU can do serious work. Local AI puts the user in full control of every part of the process and demystifies the technology involved. Anyone can train new models from scratch,… Continue reading Local AI for Type Design with the Runebender Font Editor
AI coding assistants can now write working Python in minutes – but for type designers, “working” and “correct” aren’t the same thing. This workshop is a hands-on taster in using AI as a collaborator for building your own tools, not a coding class: after a short orientation to the toolkit (RoboFont’s scripting console, a code… Continue reading Between Prompt and Font: AI-Assisted Tool-Making for Type Designers
Not made that upgrade yet? Join lead developer Georg Seifert in this advanced workshop about how to get the most out of Glyphs 4. And learn how to profit from the improvements in the upgrade when it comes to interpolation, smart components, and stroke-based editing. Bring your MacBook and receive a free extended trial license.
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 interactive demo-lecture explores how the complex behavior of Arabic calligraphic shapes contributes to different levels of visual complexity in typography, depending on their contextual position. This complexity emerges from the script’s rich range of design possibilities, including contextual shape variations, stacking order and cascading, compressed constructions, elongation through kashida, and swash variants. Grounded in… Continue reading Exploring Arabic-Script Legibility: An Interactive Journey Through Visual Complexity and Perceived Difficulty
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 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 to… 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