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Continuing from the previous courses in The Complete Typographer, Making Typeface Families focuses on drawing a complete alphabet from start to finish, then adding bold and italic variations. Students will choose a sample document for which they'll create a typeface, translate concepts from rough pencil sketches to digitized finishes, and establish cohesiveness in a small trial range of selected characters. Through study of various letterform elements, students will establish how these parts need to come together in a logical way to form a set of related letters and eventually, an entire typeface.
Below you will find an overview of the Learning Outcomes you will achieve as you complete this course.
Victoria Rushton was trained as a type designer by the great folks at Font Bureau, amongst whom she now runs her own foundry on TypeNetwork. She has a degree in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design, but discovered while there that the only thing she really wanted to draw was letters, so here we are.
She has made custom typefaces for corporations and for individual folks, released two of her own original typeface families (with many more on the way), and she draws lettering when all the fonts start to be too much. She tends to move every few years and finds herself enjoying Baltimore right now.
Victoria likes to write for Alphabettes, make silkscreen prints in her dining room, and has spoken at Typographics NYC and the Type Directors Club. The only thing she cares about more than letters themselves is making the industry the most welcoming space possible to type nerds of all backgrounds.
Nina Stössinger is a Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type in Brooklyn. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, she studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and type design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina teaches Type Design at Yale University School of Art, frequently lectures internationally and serves on the board of directors of the Type Directors Club. Her type designs include Conductor (with Tobias Frere-Jones), FF Ernestine, and Nordvest.
After earning a Masters degree in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK, Luisa Baeta spent three years designing type at Dalton Maag, in London. She now lives in New York and works and a graphic and type designer focusing on branding.
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