Crafting Type does mostly three-day workshops, traveling to cities around the world.The following ongoing courses are English-language instruction specifically in type design: Wikipedia’s List of Institutions Offering Type Design Education: covers just about every school that offers any courses, in any language, including institutions offering a broader design curriculum with one or two type design courses available as part of the curriculum. FontLab forums - for FontLab questions (though you can also ask on other fora).
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How to create typefaces: from sketch to screen by Cristóbal Henestrosa, Laura Meseguer and José Scaglione.Note that three of these books (Henestrosa et al., Moye, Cheng) offer exceedingly similar advice on spacing, which they have all borrowed from Walter Tracy’s Letters of Credit, which appears further below (as aside from the several pages of incredibly useful spacing advice, it is not directly a how-to-design-fonts book). Type Design Brief: How to approach and define a type design project, my answer on Quora.īooks directly on type design, in vaguely descending order of how useful they are as practical guides to help make fonts.How Do You Make a Font? my answer on Quora.Here is my collection of links and resources on designing typefaces and making fonts, all in one place! If you do not already have general typography background, read my post aimed at beginners and non-designers interested in typography. No, you wouldn’t show all these layers at once while drawing.