A fun, practical workshop in six Sunday sessions about how to use Python scripts to improve font production—for type designers with little to no coding experience.
Python Scripting for Type Design
6 Zoom sessions, Sundays Mar 26 – Apr 30
Duration: 3 hours each
- 1-1 coaching over Slack & Zoom
This series of workshops is hands-on, engaging, and pragmatic. We will focus entirely on type design use cases for Python—building scripts together piece by piece, at a manageable pace. While I have many examples for us to learn from, the most exciting ones are those that you and other participants think up!
Working on a font with tabular figures? Let’s write a script to help! Need to adjust the position of all your top diacritics? We can do that together.
If you have taken other Python classes, this will feel different.
Goals:
- Understand what scripting is and what it’s capable of in the context of type design.
- Feel less intimidated around code.
- Understand when scripting makes sense, and when it’s more efficient to do something manually.
- Learn the basics of Python, basic programming concepts, and the essential skill of breaking down “problems” into a sequence of solvable steps.
- Feel empowered to write your own basic scripts, suited to the needs of your font projects.
Questions?
Want to learn more or see examples from the workshop? Join one of the Q&A Zoom calls
📅 10AM and 5PM US Eastern Time on Tuesday, March 7
Who?
Peter Nowell
For Whom?
Type designers of all skill levels; students and pros alike. The curriculum is designed for those who do not know how to code or who only know a little bit of code (ex: “I learned some JavaScript years ago”).
How Much?
USD 960 (BIPOC scholarships available)
Language
English