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Dan Cederholm
Learn how to gather inspiration for your typeface, iterate upon letterforms, as well as translate your rough sketches into Glyphs app to start bringing your design to life.
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Hands down the most informative and well rounded workshop. It was exactly the right amount of informative and instructional. I learned more in this 3 hours than I did in some design college courses (looking at you Macromedia Freehand). Would absolutely recommend if building a functional (or not!) font is on your list.
In this interactive Dribbble Workshop session, Dan Cederholm will demystify dipping your toes into the world of type design—he’ll show you that creatives of any stripe can take their letterform ideas and begin crafting them into fully-functional fonts.
You’ll learn how to gather inspiration for your typeface, iterate upon letterforms, as well as translate your rough sketches into Glyphs app to start bringing your design to life.
Along the way you’ll gain insights into Dan’s unique creative journey—he’s a creative everyman who’s also been a consummate renaissance man over the course of his 20+-year career. Under his SimpleBits moniker, Dan’s been coding, designing, writing books, hosting podcasts, puppeteering, selling his awesome brand of design goods, and designing charming typeface families. (Oh, and this is in addition to also co-founding a little creative community called Dribbble, too.)
FREE BONUS MATERIALS!
When you sign up for this limited-seat Dribbble Workshop session, you’re going to leave with a headful of actionable ideas on how these typeface designs came to life, as well as:
3 FREE font weights from Dan’s very own typeface families.
FREE copy of Dan's e-book of his Twenty Bits I Learned About Making Fonts book & a DEEP discount to the hardcover!
Plus you will get a copy of the workshop recording!
What you’ll learn
How to find type inspiration
Dan’s font-making process
Basics of Glyphs app
Working with paths
Designing alternates
Drawing monoline letterforms
Mastering diacritics
BONUS MATERIALS!
Get 3 of Dan's Custom fonts FREE
A FREE copy of his e-book
Plus the workshop recording
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Meet your instructor
Dan Cederholm
Co-founder of Dribbble & owner of SimpleBits
Dan Cederholm is the co-founder of Dribbble, owner and maker at SimpleBits, a tiny design company, type foundry, and goods shop. Cutting his teeth on standards-based web design almost 20 years ago, he mostly creates logos, fonts, and t-shirts these days. Dan has written several books on the craft of creating websites. He collects hobbies and is a dad in real life
