ENGLISH VERSION. Practical Font Engineering. With Elí Castellanos 2.0
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Make your own font production
Learn to work beyond the design stage where aspects related to functionality are refined.
Learn to generate fonts that work correctly when installed on any computer equipment.
Objective
The participants will have an overview of a workflow appropriate to their needs to produce their own typefaces
They will be able to generate functional fonts for different platforms.
Topics
— Review the font formats
— Know the tools: FontTools and Fontmake and other Open-source libraries
— Generate functional fonts for Adobe or Microsoft software
— Edit OpenType features from a text file
— Edit the font info of your UFO file
— Generate your webfonts
— Find out what hinting is and how to use auto hinting
— Visualize the function of the different OpenType tables.
— Access links where the information is stored.
Squeeze your mind into a marathon of practical information
- 6 sessions of 2 hours each (Distributed in 3 weeks)
- Tuesday and Thursday
- june 22, 24, 29 and july 1, 6, 8
- 19 - 21 hrs (GMT +2) [12 pm – 2 pm (Mexico) | 6 pm – 8 pm (London) | 7 pm – 9 pm (Berlin) | 8 pm – 10 pm (Athens)]
Investment: USD $300
* Your time zone doesn’t fit the class schedule? write to elitype@gmail.com / plus@tipastype.com
About Elí Castellanos
Freelance typeface designer and font developer. He runs Cocijotype Foundry. For five years he worked as a font developer at studio Dalton Maag, in London, UK.
Graduated from Expert class in Type Design by the Plantin Institute of Typography, at the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp. He has also taken the python workshops from design.space. His work has been awarding with the Gold Prize in Morisawa Type Design Competition 2014, Certificate of Excellence in Type Design by Communication Arts Typography Competition 2011, and selected in the Biennials “Tipos Latinos” 2006, 2010, and 2014.
He has given typeface design workshops in independent spaces as well as in the National Center of the Arts, Mexico, and the “Anahuac del Sur” University, Mexico. He has participated as a speaker at the ATypI 2018 Warsaw, Typography Mexico 2018 Monterrey, TypeLab 2020 online event, and ATypI 2020 online event. He currently teaches typography and typeface design at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the National University, Mexico.
Organizador TipasType
Organizador de ENGLISH VERSION. Practical Font Engineering. With Elí Castellanos 2.0
Somos un estudio de diseño gráfico y tipográfico, que desarrolla fuentes a la medida, proyectos editoriales y diseño de marca. Estamos obsesionadas con el tema de la letra y convencidas de que un buen uso tipográfico es la principal herramienta de comunicación gráfica en el lenguaje editorial y corporativo.
De manera simultánea, TipasType emerge como un espacio creado por mujeres para promover el trabajo femenino en el campo tipográfico que propone una plataforma colaborativa donde se hace difusión del conocimiento y los saberes sobre temas relacionados con la tipografía desde el análisis histórico y técnico. Al mismo tiempo, desarrolla y promueve fuentes tipográficas y proyectos de mujeres apasionadas al respecto, funcionando como la primer fundidora tipográfica desarrollada por mujeres en latinoamérica.
Nuestra primer familia tipográfica desarrollada, Xantolo, ha sido galardonada en 2017 con el reconocimiento en la categoría de Tipografía por los Premios Internacionales de Diseño Industrial y Diseño Gráfico (Premios Clap1).
Hemos dictado charlas y talleres en Festival Letrastica, UAM Xochimilco, Universidad de Ixtalhuaca, CENART y Tipografilia.