Educator and design writer Carolina de Bartolo led a workshop on setting body text to perform well under a number of design constraints. The education was aimed at those new to macrotypography, or those just hoping to polish their skills in working with long texts.
Sean McBride is one of the engineer-cum-designers working at Adobe’s Typekit, one of the major web font hosting services. Today he shared his insights into the current renaissance in web typography—which, if you’ve been living under a rock, is due to the now much-wider range of fonts available to web developers via the @font-face CSS spec.
Andreas Frohloff is not just the head of the type department at FSI, he is also a trained type designer and calligraphy artist.
Wem die vielen Vorträge und der inhaltliche Input auf der TYPO mal zuviel werden, der kann es auch mit einer ganz praktischen Betätigung probieren: Selbst ein Werkzeug in die Hand nehmen und eigene Bilder erzeugen.
