Courses

Workshop Nº 14 Font Nerdery

Closed
September 12, 2021

€200

Address Confirmed at registration. Duration: 9am—6pm.
Note to French & European: This price is without taxes, more details on the bottom of the next page.

This event is no longer open to registration.

As regular Glyphs user, it’s the workshop tailored for you: Glyphs core team Georg Seifert and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (who speaks French) will go through various crucial features to improve your workflow! A unique chance to extend your knowledge. This is a joint effort with Glyphs.

Open to all Nerds

A unique chance for type designers to meet Glyphs core team! Georg Seifertand Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer will conduct this workshop at TypeParis.

➜ The day before you can register to Abracadabra Glyphs: The two workshops are complementary, the Saturday workshop is intended for both total beginners and experienced designers who want to delve into variable fonts.

Advanced Font Nerdery topics?

We will go through an efficient font production workflow for Glyphs. Get to know the best insider tips for setting up your font file, testing your work inside and outside of the app, and for managing paths, components, interpolation, PS hinting, spacing, and kerning. In each topic, we will focus on QA: find even the smallest mistakes, no matter where they are buried in your font file, and correct them efficiently. In the course of the workshop, you will learn how to extend the app functionality with scripts and plug-ins.

Who?

Limited to 20 attendees: Experienced designers and font engineers who use Glyphs regularly.

It’s in English, mais les francophones sont bienvenus puisque Rainer parle français.

Prerequisites

Just bring your MacBook with the latest version of Glyphs 3 preinstalled, make sure you updated to the most recent beta: Glyphs > Preferences > Updates: enable Cutting Edge Versions and check for updates.

Covid-19

With the current available information, we do our best to observe the social distancing between the participants during our classes. We recommend to wash ands often as well wearing mask. Our instructors are vaccinated. We request a proof of vaccination against Covid-19 or negative RT-PC: pdf or via your app (in France we use Pass Anti-Covid). Attendees who doesn’t respect the rules will be not accepted. More information in our FAQ.

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