learn Typography

http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/

I have to dig on this book!

It´s great when it becomes tangible.

http://fontfeed.com/archives/stop-motion-video-introduces-the-vocabulary-of-typography/

http://fontfeed.com/archives/lovely-video-shows-the-process-of-letterpress-printing/

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/tipo/palestina/refby=typographica

The Plantin Society, Higher Institute for Graphic Arts, orga­ni­zes expert clas­ses on typo­gra­phy and design. As an auto­no­mous insti­tute it offers a uni­que pro­gram in which the­o­re­ti­cal insi­ghts and his­to­ri­cal bac­k­grounds are com­bi­ned with tech­ni­cal knowledge and prac­ti­cal skills.
New! The Plantin Society orga­ni­ses expert clas­ses Type design in a modu­lar process.

http://www.plantingenootschap.be/?page_id=67&lang=en

Module 2 <- This module looks amazing I wish I knew all this things.

1: Font pro­duc­tion sof­tware (introduction)

1. Analogue ver­sus digi­tal.
   Conversion of ana­lo­gue dra­wings via a digi­ti­zer (Ikarus for­mat) or via auto­tra­cing ver­sus direct dra­wing on screen.
2. Contour descrip­tion for­mats.
   The Ikarus for­mat, cubic Bézier cur­ves (PostScript Type1 / OpenType CFF) and qua­dra­tic Bézier cur­ves (TrueType / OpenType TTF).
3. Ikarus and DTL FontMaster
   Batch-oriented modu­les for spe­ci­a­li­zed pro­fes­si­o­nal font production.
4. FontLab Studio
   The most used font edi­tor worldwide.
5. FontForge
   Open sou­rce (free) font editor.
6. Adobe Illustrator
   Design of cha­rac­ters in Adobe Illustrator and expor­ting the results to font edi­tors.
   FontConstructor????????

2: Glyph databases

1. Development (aes­the­tic and tech­ni­cally) of con­tour descrip­ti­ons (glyphs).
   Detailed deve­lo­p­ment of a type design in a ‘glyph editor’.
2. Development of the glyph set.
   From the con­struc­tion of ‘basic’ cha­rac­ter sets to the sup­port of mul­ti­ple codepages.
3. Setting (jus­ti­fi­ca­tion).
   The jus­ti­fi­ca­tion of type and deter­mi­na­tion of thic­k­ness values.
4. Kerning pairs.
   The how and why of the making of cor­rec­ti­ons to the thic­k­ness values. What are the res­tric­ti­ons on sys­tems inhe­ri­ted from the Lead Age with cha­rac­ters at right angles?

3: Data management

1. Batch mana­ge­ment.
   Further deve­lo­p­ment of the glyph set (in batch), such as the pla­cing of accents.
2. Quality con­trol.
   Checking of (con­tours of) glyphs and code pages (in batch).
3. File mana­ge­ment.
   Organization of files for naming and metrics of fonts (for batch production).

4: Font generation

1. Font for­mats.
   A descrip­tion of modern font for­mats (PostScript Type1, TrueType and OpenType [CFF and TTF]).
2. Automation (batch pro­ces­ses).
   Automated gene­ra­tion of font data.
3. Scripts.

5: Font format-processing

1. OpenType Layout fea­tu­res.
   Addition of OpenType Layout fea­tu­res (in batch).
2. Delta-hints.
   Addition of instruc­ti­ons for the recor­ding of cha­rac­ters at low resolutions.
3. Processing of gene­ra­ted fonts.
   Changing or adding infor­ma­tion to alre­ady gene­ra­ted fonts.

This is wonderful! I need to sort out my pdf’s

http://www.textism.com/textfaces/index.html?id=19

You’ll recognize what is good as soon as you see it, if not you deserve it!

have a look at the “j” to start to be delighted.

And taking part of one of their projects!
http://typophile.com/

Right now!

I’ll attend to a typography workshop :D so nice! with this madman!

I need to work out a proper grid for the magazine, that will help.

I forgot the other thing I was about to write.

As I always liked slabs serifs, now I am making an exercise with the mag and the most readable Egyptian typeface, it’s Glypha Roman, you see, how smart the Neo’s, of course is the best one besides Frutiguer designed it. Now I’ll choose Heavy weights for headers, change colors. Adjust my grids.

Grrr, all in one night, and I miss Miguel so much, feeling worried about him actually. :S