Hands on Glyphs: TrueType, Variable Fonts, Corner and Smart Components (Workshop) (90 Min.)

TYPO Labs 2017 New Dimensions in Type Engineering | Saturday, 08 April | 11:00 am | Cube | English

TrueType: the final frontier. You feel safe with PostScript outlines, but still shy away from things like TT Hinting? This workshop shows how to turn your designs into pristine TTFs with Glyphs, so you can lightly, regularly and boldly go where you have not gone before. Plus: what you need to know about the status quo of Variable Font production in Glyphs, as well as useful tips for reusing shapes with dynamic corner and smart components. Bring your fonts! (Sample files available.)

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Georg Seifert

Type Designer, Software Developer (Berlin)

Bauhaus University graduate Georg Seifert (b. 1978 in Halle an der Saale, Germany) is a type designer and a software developer. His typeface families Graublau Sans and Graublau Slab have become international bestsellers. He co-developed the typeface for the new Berlin Airport. He is most well known, however, for the…
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Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer

Type Designer (Vienna)

Rainer Erich (‘Eric’) Scheichelbauer was born in Vienna, and studied photography, philosophy and Dutch. Today, he creates and produces typefaces, gives type design workshops, translates Dutch books on typography into German, and writes articles and Python scripts. He joined the Glyphs team in 2012, and has been writing tutorials and the handbook ever since.

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