There is also an app that is currently in beta development, which you can download. Glyphr Studio is a hobbyist style bezier font creation tool on the web. I had trouble getting it to run reliably on Windows for years, but the latest version is now rock solid on my Windows 10 Pro laptop. He developed it on Linux, and it has been ported to Windows and Macintosh platforms as well. I do not have experience with all of them, but there are a bunch that are free.įontForge was developed for a guy’s own use and is very professional. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY since summer 2005.There are a lot of solutions for creating fonts on Windows. He taught type design at the SfG, School for Design in Basel, Switzerland between 2002–’05. Hannes established his studio Das Kombinat in 1999.

After apprenticeships at Studio Dumbar and the Font Bureau he worked at Meta Design and at the Buro Petr van Blokland. Hannes Famira studied graphic and typographic design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, Netherlands. Participants should have a basic typographic knowledge and some experience in a vector based drawing application such as Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand. The topics covered will be tracing artwork, techniques of perfecting curves, building diacritics as well as the secrets of spacing, kerning and hinting. The participants will be made familiar with the software application FontLab Studio v.5 by drawing and producing their own functioning digital type faces. In this hands-on course, Hannes Famira will guide the participants step by step through the different stages of up-to-date font development. The design and production processes of typefaces have significantly changed in the past 20 years. $625.00 (plus one time non-refundable registration fee of $25.00)

Tuesday nights May 30 – August 1 (no class July 4) Details below the fold.Ĭooper Union Continuing Education presents:ĭigital type design: Introduction to type design in FontLab Studio v.5 The Cooper Union class starts this summer for $625. An intro to his teaching style can be found at the brimming TypEdu. He got his chops at KABK in one of only two full-fledged design programs in the world, worked with Font Bureau, Meta, and Petr van Blokland, and his Thesisesque superset InterFamily shows he can put out some quality fontage.

So the Cooper Union‘s upcoming class with Hannes Famira is worth noting, and, if you’re in the New York area, worth taking. True type design courses are few and far betwixt. Written by Typographica on April 12, 2006

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