Type Design for Non-Type Designers with Matteo Bologna

A design festival for people who use type.

Typographics Festival

Classes and workshops will take place over Zoom. A link to join will be emailed to enrolled students a day or two before the first session.

Get a fun crash course in designing type from your couch, with Matteo Bologna (Mucca Design) and Rainer Scheichelbauer (Glyphs).In this two-day class, you will learn the basics of designing and generating a variable font with the font-design software Glyphs (Mac only). Go beyond choosing the same typefaces from the type menu to creating your own.In the Friday session, we will learn the basics of drawing a font, generate the font, and use it in an Adobe app or a web browser. In the afternoon, we will add additional letters to the font, learning how to space them, add diacritics and punctuation.On Saturday, we add a wide version of the same typeface, create a variable font—and make it animate in a web browser.At the end of the class, you will not have a finished font, but a respectable start and a deep understanding about how fonts are made. And maybe you’ll become a type design addict. You have been warned.Required Materials<ul><li>Get online with your Mac (macOS 10.11+, no Windows, sorry) and [Glyphs 3](http://updates.glyphsapp.com/latest3.php) preinstalled. The trial version suffices.</li><li>No prior experience is required in font design, but some experience with Bézier-based vector drawing tools is useful.</li><li>Participants receive an extended trial license for Glyphs 3 and can purchase their own full license at a discount.</li></ul>Matteo Bologna is the principal of Mucca Design, where he also serves as Creative Director. Under his direction, the Mucca Design team has solved numerous design challenges and created uniquely successful work for a wide variety of global companies like Sephora, Whole Foods, Victoria’s Secret, WeWork, Adobe Systems, Bacardi and Danone. With his team he designed the identities for a variety of now classic New York City culinary destinations like Balthazar’s and Frenchette.Matteo is a past chairman of the Type Directors Club and former board member of AIGA/NY. He frequently lectures about branding and typography around the world.A trained photographer, Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer holds both a philosophy and a Dutch studies degree. He creates typefaces, works as a digital punchcutter for other type designers, and gives type design workshops on a regular basis. Since he has joined the Glyphs team in 2012, he has been writing articles, tutorials, and Python scripts, as well as the blog and the handbook. He lives and works in Vienna, where he also runs his type studio Schriftlabor.

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