Type Tonight NYC Workshops ↗

A hands-on intro to Python for fonts: learn the basics of coding, how to think like a coder, and how to utilize A.I. and vibe-code anything you need for your type design workflow. We will start at zero, and learn about variables, loops, flow control, and functions. And eventually, you will know what to ask your favorite LLM to get exactly what you want without wasting too many precious tokens.

Join us for drinks and informal exchange at the South Street Seaport Museum. In a short and light presentation, Rainer will show what kind of fun and subversive things you can do with OpenType features nowadays, after which you definitely deserve a drink.

Missed this workshop at Typographics? No problem, Matteo and Rainer are back for one of their classic intros to type design!

In this two-day class, you will learn the basics of designing and generating a variable font with the font-design software Glyphs (Mac only). Go beyond choosing the same typefaces from the type menu to creating your own!

On the first day, we will learn the basics of drawing a font, generate the font, and use it in an Adobe app or a web browser. In the afternoon, we will add additional letters to the font, learning how to space them, add diacritics and punctuation.

On the second day, we will add more letters, design a bold version of the same typeface, create a variable font—and make it animate in a web browser. At the end of the class, you will probably not have a finished font, but a respectable start and a deep understanding about how fonts are made. And maybe you’ll become a type design addict. You have been warned.