PRODUCING A DIGITAL TYPEFACE

Weekend Small Group Intensive: 8 hours
Instructor: Rod Cavazos
Location: PSY/OPS, SF (SOMA)
Next Session: To Be Announced, 10am-3pm each day
Registration: $225 [early registration: $185]
Student pricing: $190 [early registration: $155]

Description

This weekend workshop covers the techniques used to produce commercial-quality digital typefaces using Macromedia Fontographer. The class is ideal for anyone interested in fully realizing a typographic concept, or in simply being able to adapt or troubleshoot existing font files reliably and efficiently. Topics include vector construction, letterspacing, pair kerning, diacritic and special character handling, basic hinting, encoding, cross-platform conversion, importing and testing. The classes focus on maximizing the capabilities (and avoiding common pitfalls) of Fontographer.

Registration

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Details

Requisites: familiarity with MacOS and vector-based graphics is desirable.

Syllabus: A PDF is provided to participants upon registration.

Approach: The workshops are conducted in a conversational, non-regimented manner. They consist of live demonstrations on a projection screen, with Q&A throughout. Group interest often dictates which topics are given more attention.

Focus: The emphasis of these workshops is typographic production. Topics such as design, readability, legibility, typesetting, marketing, etc. will generally be covered insofar as they affect production.


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