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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