Type Design (2 Weeks)
Teachers: Prof. Hans-Jürg Hunziker, Prof. Rudolf Barmettler

Learning outcomes and skills
– development and production of a text typeface
 
Course description
The course addresses all steps of manual typeface design. From the first pencilled sketches to the finished typeface, all aspects of conception and implementation – decision making and creative translation – are exercised, tested, re-worked and executed by means of a software program.
 
Course content
Design and production from lowercase to uppercase characters, numerals and punctuation marks for a text typeface in a regular weight.
– craft skills
– conceptual sketches in pencil and ink
– introduction to the FontLab software program
 
Exercises
– design work and organization
– collaborative development of a text font
– working in teams
– execution and precision work
– letterform fitting
 
Specialist subject knowledge/inputs
– introduction to the subject-specific literature
– grounding in specialist subject knowledge
– terminology and concepts
– type-knowledge input