OPEN TYPE

Workshop with Dave Crossland

// Understanding fonts

The designer Dave Crossland helped us understand the good side of type design, and the use of the free software FontForge; How it can be applied to our work and how such a simple method of designing fonts could increase the quality of one's work.

constant
repetition
alignment
proportion

Even fontforge is the most used software to design fonts, inkscape would also work as it is a software designer for vectors and illustration, similar to illustrator by adobe, the software I was used to.

Challenging but useful, a font can easily be designed as I consider it to be a software perfectly accessible even for beginners and young designers.

FontForge tutorial by Dave Crossland proving how accessible it is and how one can easily get used to it.