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Thursday, 30 September 2021 - Session 1

8:00 AM CST

Workshop

Art

English

Yes, you can make a variable and colorful handwriting font!

  • Erwin Denissen
9:00 AM CST

Talk

Emotion

  • English

Designing a Feminist Devanagari Typeface

  • Srishti Mitra
9:30 AM CST

Talk

Art

  • English

Structural Analysis of Practical Gujarati Calligraphy

  • Hiral Bhagat
10:00 AM CST

Talk

History

  • English

Letters from home

  • Amrit Warwal
10:30 AM CST

Talk

History

  • English

Calligraphic typesetting exploration of religious scriptures to resurrect the emotional and spiritual connection originally existed in the traditional penmanship

  • Abhay Verma
11:00 AM CST

Talk

History

  • English
  • Nepali

A Recapitulative Guide to Tirhuta Typography

  • Samrāṭ Jhā
11:30 AM CST

Workshop

Tech

English

Animating Variable Fonts in Real-Time with Coldtype & Python

  • Rob Stenson
12:30 PM CST

Talk

Art

  • English

Balancing Type Design with Language Learning (Hangeul/Korean)

  • Michelle Devlin
1:00 PM CST

Talk

History

  • English

Modern History of Arabic Type: The reforming projects for the Arabic Script

  • Farah Abdel Hadi
1:30 PM CST

Talk

Art

  • English

The Research of Tool Making Towards Intuitive Variable Font Specimens

  • Rony Ginosar
2:00 PM CST

Event

  • English
  • Spanish

Chancho va, reloaded

  • Carolina Giovagnoli
  • Diogo Ramos
  • Angelina Sanchez
  • Florencia Yacante Biassoni
  • Muk Monsalve

Thursday, 30 September 2021 - Session 2

5:00 PM CST

Workshop

Relationship

English

Introduction to pricing custom font work

  • John Hudson
6:00 PM CST

Talk

Relationship

  • Español

Enrico Martínez: un rescate tipografico del México novohipano

  • Pedro Sosa
6:30 PM CST

Talk

Art

  • English

Navigating the Process: Research Methodologies For Designing In Non-Native Scripts

  • Natalie Snodgrass
7:00 PM CST

Talk

Emotion

  • English

How To Design Your Country's National Font

  • Wayne Thompson
7:30 PM CST

Talk

History

  • English

Evolving Baybayin Text Typeface Design Principles

  • Rafa Cases

Friday, 1 October 2021 - Session 3

8:00 AM CST

Workshop

Art

English

InkPlay with Gujarati Calligraphy

  • Hiral Bhagat
9:00 AM CST

Event

English

Font of the Month Club "Gather" giveaway

9:30 AM CST

Talk

Art

  • English

First attempt at Gujarati Type Design : Approach and Process

  • Krutika Shah
10:00 AM CST

Talk

Relationship

  • English

Creating from Kuppai: Finding the Type in Trash

  • Jayasri Sridhar
10:30 AM CST

Talk

Art

  • English
  • Hindi

An Oasis of Type, and a Fount of Knowledge

  • Ishan Khosla
11:00 AM CST

Talk

Relationship

  • English

A most Indian type

  • Taresh Vohra
11:30 AM CST

Workshop

Tech

English

HT LetterSpacer. A smarter approach to font spacing.

  • Carolina Giovagnoli
  • Juan Pablo del Peral
12:30 PM CST

Talk

Emotion

  • English

Moroccan design, works with shape and soul

  • Dina Benbrahim
1:00 PM CST

Talk

Tech

  • English

Unicode Character Tools

  • Richard Ishida
1:30 PM CST

Talk

Guidance

  • English

All set! About characters, glyphs and which set to include in your font

  • Nina Botthof
2:00 PM CST

Talk

Emotion

  • Español

Mauricio Amster, tipógrafo antifascista

  • Joaquín Contreras

Friday, 1 October 2021 - Session 4

5:00 PM CST

Workshop

Art

English

A drop of ink, a drop of Persian culture

  • Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
6:00 PM CST

Talk

Guidance

  • English
  • Portuguese

Letters for a circular crossing: designing a typeface for yorùbá

  • B. Benedicto
6:30 PM CST

Talk

Guidance

  • English

Teaching cultural awareness with typography

  • Melanie Uribe
7:00 PM CST

Talk

Relationship

  • English

Likewise, same, similar: typeface differentiation in cultural festival identity design

  • Tonya Meyrick
7:30 PM CST

Talk

Tech

  • English

Fonts for video games: overlooked and underserved

  • Justin Penner
8:00 PM CST

Talk

History

  • English

Exploring vernacular type in Hanoi

  • Elisabeth Kvernen

Saturday, 2 October 2021 - Session 5

8:00 AM CST

Workshop

Tech

English

Proofing and debugging OpenType fonts

  • Muthu Nedumaran
9:00 AM CST

Talk

Guidance

  • English

Hearing Type and Seeing Sound: The Adaptation of Gamelan Sunda's Musical Characteristics into Variable Fonts and Kinetic Typography (Experimental Project)

  • Annisa Luthfiasari
9:30 AM CST

Talk

History

  • English

Chakma script handwriting to digitization

  • Bivuti Suz Moriz
10:00 AM CST

Talk

Emotion

  • English

Kashmir Type Hunt

  • Waqar Qamri
10:30 AM CST

Talk

Relationship

  • English

Don't judge a book designer by their layout

  • Ragini Siruguri
11:00 AM CST

Talk

Emotion

  • English

Letters can speak to you with different tones: The Cultural Narrative of Arabic Typefaces

  • Atefeh Mohammadi
11:30 AM CST

Workshop

Art

English

Lettering Workshop: Making Cyrillic & Latin cohabit the same visual environment

  • Jovana Jocić
12:30 PM CST

Talk

History

  • Arabic
  • English

Reviving the Nubian Script, Part II: Restarting Nubian Type Design

  • Arbaab Eujayl
1:00 PM CST

Talk

Art

  • English

Contemporary Arabic type between legibility and familiarity

  • Mohamed Gaber
1:30 PM CST

Talk

Relationship

  • English

Strategy for foundries

  • Joana Correia
2:00 PM CST

Talk

Emotion

  • English

Typotheque North American Syllabics:accommodating the typographic needs and preferences of local Syllabics-using Indigenous communities by reforming the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics text standard

  • Kevin King

Saturday, 2 October 2021 - Session 6

5:00 PM CST

Workshop

Art

English

Type in motion. Storyboard for typography

  • Cecilia Brarda
6:00 PM CST

Talk

Tech

  • Portuguese

Gesture as data: explorations in hybrid calligraphy

  • Mariana Leal
6:30 PM CST

Talk

History

  • English

Exploring the Cherokee Syllabary

  • Chris Skillern
7:00 PM CST

Talk

Relationship

  • English

Discovering the Recipe to Value-Based Pricing

  • Jasmine Holmes
7:30 PM CST

Talk

Emotion

  • English

Inversion of Thai Latinized

  • Potch Auacherdkul
8:00 PM CST

Talk

History

  • English

Primer on Japanese typographic rules

  • Norbert Preining

Sunday, 3 October 2021 - Session 7

8:00 AM CST

Workshop

Art

English

Exploring the possibilities and getting started with 3D Typography

  • Abhay Verma
9:00 AM CST

Talk

Art

  • English

Contemporary typographic exploration for a classical script

  • Saroj Ranjan Patra
9:30 AM CST

Event

English

TypeCrit Session

10:30 AM CST

Talk

History

  • English

A New Old Idiom of Design

  • Pooja Saxena
11:00 AM CST

Talk

Guidance

  • English

Type X Sound

  • Vivek Thakker
11:30 AM CST

Workshop

Tech

English

Unicode is not for you

  • Liang Hai (梁海)
12:30 PM CST

Event

English

Font of the Month Club "Gather" giveaway announcement

1:00 PM CST

Talk

Art

  • English

Justification of Arabic Text: what's next?

  • Kamal Mansour
2:00 PM CST

Talk

History

  • English

The Wonders of Hebrew Wood Type

  • Shani Avni

Sunday, 3 October 2021 - Session 8

5:00 PM CST

Workshop

Art

English

Variable Workshop: Theory, Basics, and Playing with Potential in Glyphs

  • Kaleb Dean
6:00 PM CST

Talk

Emotion

  • Portuguese

Relations between typography and politics from the perspective of a young Brazilian

  • Eduardo Cazon
6:30 PM CST

Talk

Tech

  • English

Testing Fonts on the Web with TypeTuner

  • Mew Ophaswongse
7:00 PM CST

Talk

History

  • English

Reframing the Indian Vernacular Typography

  • Shantanu Suman
7:30 PM CST

Talk

Relationship

  • English

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Pushing Illegibility in Typographic Trends

  • Amy Fang
8:00 PM CST

Talk

Emotion

  • English
  • Filipino

Engaging the Filipino Type Community

  • Jo Malinis
Adobe
Erin McLaughlin
Figma
Font of the Month Club
Google
Spline
XYZ Type

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