A repository to host links, basic learning files and other stuff for students of type design classes @ HAW Hamburg
Tools shown in class can be found in the tools section.
Sometimes we do little exercises in class, find them in the exercises section. (You’re also allowed to do them at home 😉)
Other stuff referenced can be found in the links section.
Things that are interesting but not necessarily relevant can be found in other stuff.
- Glyphs get started
- Fontlab
- FontForge (Open Source)
- Metafont (Open Source) get started
- Install iTerm 2
- Install brew
- Install ohmyzsh
- Install Python manager i.e. pyenv
- Read Frank Grießhammer's Command line guide for type designers
- fonttools also read the intro by Stephen Nixon
- woff2
- fontbakery
- AFDKO
Testing your fonts is crucial. Listed below are some tools to test your (variable) fonts.
- FontGoggles
- FontGauntlet
- Check Browser Compatibility for Color Font Formats
- Test your font as your browser font with Stephen Nixon’s Type-X
Proofing is like testing your font but in a structured way (spacing, kerning, etc.)
- Read James Edmondson’s Intro Proof it!
- Creating proofs for lazy ones
- tbc
- DrawBot (Python 🐍) get started
- Processing
- p5.js
- Blender plus the incredible Coldtype/ST2 plugin by Rob Stenson
📻️ Online
🔌 Offline
In the exercises section you will find a growing number of small exercises that are used in class or that you can do on your own. Little descriptions/tasks are noted in the corresponding READMEs.
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Rosalie Wagner’s type links
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Tal Lemming’s OpenType cookbook
Terminology
It can sometimes be hard to find your way around type terminology. Here are some explanations of the acronyms, abbreviations and intricacies of the type world.
HOI — higher order interpolation
LSB — Left Side Bearing
OT — OpenType
RSB — Right Side Bearing