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 works as a typeface designer and a partner at XYZ Type from a backyard studio shed in St. Louis, Missouri. Running a type foundry brings together Ben’s diverse background in graphic design, coding, letterpress printing, and type history. After studying graphic design and computer science at Washington University in St. Louis, he completed an MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in the UK. Ben began his career at House Industries, then ran a solo design practice for several years before co-founding XYZ Type. Ben has taught at MICA, Washington University, and Type@Cooper.