Fee
$495
Session Times
Sat 22, March, 2025: 10 am-6 pm, including a lunch break
Sun 23, March, 2025: 10 am-6 pm, including a lunch break
Location:
Salotto.nyc
84 Withers St Fl 1 Brooklyn,
NY 11211-2236 USA
Registration
Overview
Two-day intensive workshop for Glyphs power users, editor switchers or swingers.
Enhance your Glyphs App skills with Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer in this weekend-intensive workshop designed for seasoned designers. Dive deep into advanced techniques such as outline optimisation, component management, interpolation, hinting, kerning strategies, and using project files to streamline your type production process.
This workshop is open to engaging conversation and questions specific to your workflow. It is ideal for designers with prior experience in font design who want to refine their process and for advanced users ready to unlock the full potential of Glyphs App.
Day 1
- Outline optimization and harmonization: potential issues, finding and solving them
- Making interpolation work: avoiding shapeshifting, unwanted distortions and kinks
- What you need to know about PS and TT auto hinting: better screen display for Adobe and Windows applications
Day 2
- Reusing shapes: step up your component game
- Project files, custom parameters and tokens: streamlining your production
- Automating kerning: bumping, optical kerning, overkerns and KernOn
Bring your MacBook with the latest Glyphs App installed. Lunch will be provided.
We hope to see you there!
Meet Your Hosts
Rainer Erich (Eric) Scheichelbauer was born in Vienna, and studied photography, philosophy and Dutch. Today, he creates and produces typefaces, teaches type design, gives type design workshops, translates Dutch books on typography into German, and writes articles and Python scripts. Rainer joined the Glyphs team in 2012, and has been writing tutorials and the handbook. He runs a small type foundry called ‘Schriftlabor’ in Vienna.
Troy Leinster is an Australian typeface designer and founder of Leinster Type. Troy provides type design coaching through Typemasters.xyz, supporting designers through the process of developing a typeface from concept to release.