No font can do everything, nor should it! However, discovering the performance envelope of your font is particularly valuable if you can discover it early and use it to inform and refine the design of your typeface. This is why it’s important to create sequential tests that include but go beyond abstract testing ( glyphs… Continue reading Sample Design for Font Testing in EQX
Different industries, such as product design, architecture, and landscape architecture, have refined design tools and processes to create physical experiences in the digital realm. Those design tools and methods could be used in typography. This workshop will address how dimensional typography could utilize the computer-aided design (CAD) software Rhino and Grasshopper 3D, the visual programming… Continue reading Alternative Digital Methods: Rhino and Grasshopper 3D for Dimensional Typography
Learn what Font Bakery is for, how it is used at Google Fonts, and how it can help you save time and publish high-quality fonts. Quality Assurance of fonts is a constant requirement for type designers, foundries, and distributors. Everyone has their own workflows to ensure their fonts are in good condition, but often these… Continue reading Font Bakery
Variable fonts have been adopted by all major browsers and are fast entering the mainstream as the newest exciting advance for fonts on the web. This workshop, led by hinting expert Michael Duggan, will teach the basics of setting up and hinting variable fonts in the latest version of Microsoft Visual TrueType (VTT). Attendees will… Continue reading Variable Font Hinting in Microsoft Visual TrueType (VTT)
“This presentation by Yui Yoshitomi will outline the features and ongoing development of the evolving FitFont technology. FitFont was developed for multi-axis adjustment and to facilitate the combining of different scripts. Since the 2012 announcement at ATypI Hong Kong about the technology’s early development stages as Adjustable Font with seamless weight control function, Type Project… Continue reading FitFont Technology: Multi-Axis Adjustment and Combining Different Scripts
Elika J. Etemad (fantasai) from the W3C CSS Working Group and Ethan Wang from Microsoft Design will present on upcoming CSS Inline Layout features that, with the support of OpenType font metrics, can support precise alignment of text on web pages.
“The topic of classification emerges in a variety of type design contexts. Historians tracing the evolution of typefaces or of individual letterforms, educators framing stylistic questions for designers, and vendors superimposing structures on vast type libraries are all classifying type, but they are performing distinct tasks. In his own research, which explores algorithmic letter fitting… Continue reading Parametric Type Classification in the Context of Letter Fitting
For centuries, designers, typographers, typesetters, and calligraphers have refined the craft of creating great books. From typeface design and selection to typesetting finesse, paper selection, and binding, every detail has been examined, refined, and perfected. But more recently, over the span of a few short years, digital book production has largely ignored centuries of good… Continue reading Landing the Whale: Rethinking the Book for the Digital Age
The working files for a typeface project are the most crucial asset a designer has—these notes, sketches, trials, overlaps, and extra glyphs, etc., make it possible to pick up a project and quickly extend or modify a design years after its initial release. Roughly seventeen years ago, the Unified Font Object (UFO) format and associated… Continue reading A Typographic Commons: UFO and roboTools
Floral typography is a design trend that combines typography, calligraphy, and lettering with floral elements. It reinterprets floral typography using computation and is a part of the ongoing project TYPE + CODE Series, which was initiated by Yeohyun Ahn in 2005. This presentation showcases a generative typographic system designed to explore computational floral typography. It can… Continue reading Developing a Generative Typography System for Typography Education