Pardon My Accent
with
Ben Kiel
A discount is available to Typographics conference participants. A promotional discount code will be found on the PDF of qualifying conference tickets. Please apply the code to workshop registration.
Building out your typeface design's accented glyph coverage can be a daunting challenge. This workshop will go over some ways to take the complexity out of teaching your typeface to be multilingual. We'll examine how to determine what languages you want and need to cover, accent design and placement, tools to automate accent building, writing OpenType code for non-precomposed accents, and how to face down the kerning challenge of many new glyphs. The workshop will be taught in RoboFont, but the principles will translate to all font editors.
About Ben Kiel
Ben Kiel is a typeface designer, an educator, and a partner in XYZ Type. Ben worked for several years at House Industries, with a specialty in solving complex problems at the overlap of design and technology. He received his MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading. He currently teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis and Type@Cooper.