Here are some notes for the students who attended my lectures on October 30 and 31, 2019.

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The “very nice” list by Indra Kupferschmid (Educational Discounts):
http://kupferschrift.de/cms/fonts-edu-discounts/

The Fontstand app:
https://fontstand.com/students

The other sites I told you about:
https://www.futurefonts.xyz
https://www.swisstypefaces.com/student/
https://fontofthemonth.club (I did not tell you about this site, but it’s a nice concept and you get fonts with a perpetual license)

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Some names you should know:

• Matthew Carter
• Adrian Frutiger
• Roger Excoffon

• Alice Savoie
• Sandrine Nugues
• Nina Stössinger
• Lara Captan (Arabic type)

• Christian Schwartz
• Tobias Frere-Jones
• Kristyan Sarkis (Arabic type)

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Reference books (introduction to typography):

The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst

Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals
Cyrus Highsmith

Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
Erik Spiekermann

Typographie : guide pratique [book in FRENCH]
Damien Gautier

Une initiation à la typographie [book in FRENCH]
Camille Gallet et Anne Denastas

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12 short films from the series « Sacrés caractères » [in FRENCH]:

Gotham
Times
Mistral
Helvetica
Cooper Black
Bodoni
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Comic Sans
Garamond
Trajan
Auriol
Transport
Futura

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The apps I use for type design (depending on projects):

RoboFont (font editor – pro)
Glyphs (font editor – pro)

There is a “mini” version of Glyphs intended for casual type designers.

Another font editor used in the industry is FontLab Studio.

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Type design and typography events:

Les Rencontres de Lure (en France)
ATypI (Paris 2020)
Kerning Conference (in Italy)

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Some typography blogs:

I love Typography (EN)
Alphabettes (EN)
Typography.Guru (EN)
Letterform Archive (EN)

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More info about my projects:

Kaltoum (multi-script Latin-Arabic typeface): click here

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