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An exhaustive collection of type design resources.
Hi Justin, I just wanted to let you know that the Type Foundry Directory and the TFD (early Airtable version) use the same database. You are welcome to keep both, but it may not be necessary to include the airtable version :)
I am also going to start working on the next iteration of the TFD, and there is a chance that I may start a new database, and so the old one might go away. (Unsure if this will actually happen, but giving you a heads up just in case.)
Hello! I'd like you to consider adding our
Curso de diseño de tipografía. Del boceto a "Variable Fonts" de Tipo-g
in your list of courses [https://typedesignresources.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#courses]
It consists of a course of 248 hours, presential, not online, in Barcelona. The faculty is composed by a group of enthusiastic professionals who are well known in the international typographic scene.
Thank you!
Tipo-g. La escuela de tipografía de Barcelona
www.tipo-g.com
I discovered this today:
https://mutsuntsai.github.io/fontfreeze/
An online converter that lets you make versions of fonts with various OpenType features frozen on or off. Might be worth a mention...?
Maybe it's worth adding FontArk to the ‘Free and open source (FOSS) font editors’ list:
https://fontark.net/farkwp/
Description:
A formative five-day festival showcasing inspiring presentations at the overlap of typography and today’s evolving industries, including: artificial, augmented, and virtual realities, creative computing, font specifications, and innovative use of craft.
https://fontstand.com/conference/
Description:
Annual typography conference organized by Fontstand, the typeface discovery and rental app.
Description:
Kerning is the first international conference in Italy dedicated solely to typography and web typography.
Although the conference stopped in 2019, the valuable talks are available online: https://vimeo.com/channels/kerning
Maybe one day the conf will be back…
https://max-esnee.com/stack-and-justify/ by Max Esnée
Anyone is welcome to contribute by working on these items, or suggesting more items to add to this list. Submit a PR or open an issue for anything you want to add/update.
HTML needs to be restructured, and/or some attributes may need to be added to certain tags to help some apps understand the content and display it properly in their "reader" modes. Mandy Michael has a nice article about this.
Hi Justin,
Irene has a great polytonic tutorial for Greek.
https://github.com/irenevl/Polytonic-tutorial
https://ecal.ch/en/courses-and-research/master/type-design/
Description:
Students work on techniques specific to typeface design (calligraphy, work on curves, construction, digital drawing), including the development of multi script font families.
On the whole, the language used in link descriptions on this site tend to be simple, informative and without marketing spin... except, it seems, when talking about font software.
Given the place this website has in informing new type designers on how to start, I think the language used to describe the editors in the Software section should be as informative as possible without engaging in marketing spin.
A good example of this is the Fontself description — it describes what it does without making any marketing claims:
Fontself
Illustrator/Photoshop plugins to turn your designs into fonts.
However the description High Logic Font Creator takes marketing language directly from their homepage ("With over 5 million downloads to date, FontCreator is considered the world's most popular and best font editor."). The description for FontLab makes claims about its primacy ("Gold standard") which might have been true at one point but doesn't reflect the current editor landscape. They doesn't appear to be as impartial as other link descriptions on the page:
FontLab
The gold standard for type design software, and the longest history – first released in 1992.High Logic Font Creator
The world’s most popular font editor
If you would appreciate a PR, I can attempt to write more neutral descriptions — otherwise I'll leave it with you, of course.
Either way, thanks for this wonderful resource!
Hi Justin, just letting you know that the testing page is back online
https://impallari.com/testing/
Cheers
To add in the events section?
https://www.typeelectives.com/events
Description:
Co-founded by Lynne Yun and Juan Villanueva, Type Electives offers courses and events that go beyond traditional type design education.
https://ilovetypography.com/academy/courses/
Description:
ILT academy exists to promote expert teaching of type design, font production, and typography. Courses cover various script systems and are taught in a number of languages.
Description:
Font Bakery is command-line tool for checking the quality of font projects.
The brand new online version (drag'n drop version):
http://fontbakery.com/
The code-based version:
https://github.com/fonttools/fontbakery
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