Better Glyph Point Placement for Better Fonts
with Thomas Phinney
Tuesday 9 February 2016 9:00 am Pacific / noon Eastern / 18.00CEST FREE Live Webinar Register now
Learn how to construct better outlines for fonts, and why it matters.
Make your fonts render quicker and better on screen, and your glyphs easier to edit.
Discover why so many designers think they have points at extrema when they don’t.
Note: to submit a font for live feedback during the webinar, write to “info” at the obvious domain (fontlab.com).
Webinar Agenda
Why outlines matter
What to do
Issues
Tools for Better Outlines
LIVE feedback and example outline corrections on several real users’ fonts
Q&A
About Thomas
Thomas Phinney is a type designer, educator, and font geek who used FontLab for 20 years before joining FontLab in 2014, and becoming President in 2015. Previously he worked at Extensis (web fonts and font management tools) and Adobe (product manager for global fonts and typography). Thomas teaches typeface design with Crafting Type, and has been a repeat guest lecturer for MA Typeface Design at the University of Reading. He is also secretary of ATypI, the international typography association. His typeface Hypatia Sans is an Adobe Original with over 3000 glyphs per font.
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It’s webinar time! We hit max capacity of 200 registrants last time we did this webinar, and we want a better recording of it, so we are repeating it! (Already at 90 registrants from email announcement.)
Please join us for an exciting new free webinar for beginning type designers!
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with Fábio Duarte Martins
Tuesday 16 June 2015 9:00 am Pacific / noon Eastern / 16.00GMT / 18.00CEST Register now!
The video from the webinar is now available!
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Use FontLab Studio 5 to Make Connecting Script Fonts with Laura Worthington
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$24.95 Register now!
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The free FontLab webinar with Sumner Stone discussing font superfamilies is now available on YouTube!