The Illegal Practice of Typography – Creating glyphs from images: an experiment inspired by Iliazd’s great Maximiliana, or the Illegal Practice of Astronomy

Clif Meador
February 09, 2013
9:00am-4:00pm
Scripps College Press

Participants will work from one of their own images (or any image) to create a font-like piece of drawing software. This process will involve isolating fragments of the image, translating that fragment into a graphic language suitable for use as a font, and then encoding that drawing into a font. Each participant will produce a laser-printed folio as a specimen of their glyphs with the source image, and all participants will take home a portfolio of the group’s work.

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