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Type Design for Sign Painters
with Gen Ramírez
WhenNovember 14th – 15th
10AM – 4PM
10AM – 4PM
Tuition
$595
$595
WhereIn Person at the
New York Sign Museum
New York Sign Museum
The Workshop
This is an in-person, computer-based workshop focused on digital typeface design, not a sign painting class. You’ll learn how to use type design software to develop letterforms into a digital font, exploring how traditional lettering skills can translate into a new set of digital tools for your creative practice.
He’s the co-founder of Dual Type, a type design studio, and the founder of Letrástica Comunidad and Letrástica Type Festival in Guadalajara. He’s taught workshops and classes in Mexico and internationally, including at Type@Cooper, TypeWest, RISD, and KABK.
Learning Outcomes
- Learn the fundamental principles of type design
- Get introduced to type design software and establish a digital type design workflow
- Begin developing a digital typeface based on your own lettering
- Develop a critical eye for letterform shapes, spacing, rhythm, and contrast
- Learn to proof, test, and refine letterforms for quality and consistency
- Explore the potential of custom typefaces for creating distinctive graphic layouts, working with lettering digitally, and preparing sign painting patterns
You’ll leave the workshop with a starting point for a personal typeface and the foundational skills to continue developing it for your own creative practice.
Audience and Format
*This is a digital design workshop, not a hands-on sign painting class.
No previous font design experience is required, although some familiarity with Bézier-based vector drawing tools will be helpful.
For experienced sign painters, the workshop offers a way to bring traditional lettering into a digital workflow. You’ll explore how custom typefaces can help you prepare layouts and patterns more efficiently, while learning the fundamentals of digital typesetting, spacing, and kerning.
We don’t consider ourselves Luddites here at the New York Sign Museum or Noble Signs. We love analog techniques, but both of our teams bring traditional lettering into the digital world every day. We created this course to help you do the same: take inspiration from vintage lettering and turn it into functional typefaces you can use in your own design work.
Materials
- Temporary Glyphs licenses will be provided to participants for the duration of the course.
- Macbook with MacOS is required. Please note that other operating systems do not support Glphs. Students will need to bring their own laptop and charger.
- Please plan to pack a lunch both days or to order delivery, there may need be a long enough break to go out for lunch.
This workshop is supported by Glyphs
Dates
Day 2: Sunday Nov 15th, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Scholarship
*Please note your application will be considered not eligible if you purchase a workshop ticket.
Policies
- Minimum Enrollment Policy: This workshop has a minimum enrollment. If this minimum is not met 4 weeks before the workshop start date, the workshop will be canceled, and all payments will be fully refunded to students, subject to no fee.
- Waitlist: If the workshop is sold out, we do not offer a waitlist. Tickets will be released for sale if anyone cancels their participation. If the workshop is sold out, you can opt to get an email notification when new tickets are back in stock directly from the registration page.
- Refund Policy: Full refund up to 4 weeks in advance of first class start date, subject to $25 administrative and processing fee. After that, no refunds are possible. Email store@nysignmuseum.org to request a refund.
- Rescheduling Policy: NYSM reserves the right to postpone or reschedule workshops to an alternate date. Should a change occur, participants will automatically have their tickets transferred to the new date. For postponed or rescheduled workshops, participants may request a full refund by emailing store@nysignmuseum.org within 5 days of the announcement.
- Cancellation Policy: NYSM reserves the right to cancel workshops. Should a cancellation occur with no rescheduled date, participants will automatically receive a full refund.