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The Geometry of Form: Building Letterforms from Scratch

Thomas Hull

Oct 21, 2:00 - 2:45 PM

Meridian Hall — Rehearsal Hall

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Before type was type, it was geometry. Every letterform in every alphabet ever designed is a negotiation between a circle, a rectangle and a diagonal.

This workshop strips typography back to first principles, giving participants only printable shapes, a grid and the challenge of constructing a complete set of letterforms using nothing but those primitives. Working by hand and by eye, participants discover through making what centuries of type designers discovered through craft: that the rules of optical consistency, stroke contrast and proportion aren’t arbitrary—they’re what happens when geometry tries to become legible. Join Thomas to get a visceral, hands-on understanding of why type looks the way it does, and a set of constructed letterforms participants can take further into a typeface, a logotype or a display system.

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