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TypeJockey: Parametric Type Design Workshop
with Filip Paldia
Build a parametric font generator in Glyphs with LTTR/INK, and mix letterforms like a DJ remixing sounds!
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During this type design workshop, you’ll set up interpolation axes, create master shapes, and blend typographic ingredients (squareness, collapse, slant) to generate new letterforms. You'll also learn to add translation contrast and tilt controls, and expand the system with weight axes. Use stroke styles for faster prototyping and consistent font-wide changes.
The workshop runs in two sessions. Session one covers the parametric framework: creating custom skeleton shapes, mixing them, and exploring new forms through extrapolation. Session two integrates strokes and outlines: setting up stroke styles, creating contrast tilt and weight modifiers, and wrapping up.
This workshop is suitable for students building technical skills, graphic designers creating custom fonts, and type designers seeking fresh prototyping approaches.
You’ll receive a TypeJockey starter file with base letterforms, a pre-configured stroke styles library, a step-by-step reference guide, and a free LTTR/INK Master license for two months.
Sign up before March 12th for a 10% discount!
Diversity and Equity Scholarship
Diversity and Equity are important to all of us at Letterform Archive, and we are committed to increasing opportunities for underrepresented groups within the type and design communities.
We are offering one BIPOC/Equity scholarship seat in this workshop.
To apply for this scholarship, please complete and submit to us the short form linked here at least a week prior to the start of the workshop
Filip Paldia
Filip Paldia is co-founder of LTTR/INK, a typographic stroke contrast tool particularly useful for Korean and calligraphic type design. Alongside LTTR/INK, he proposed a skeleton type design methodology, which he advocates through regular workshops on skeleton type design and TypeJockey parametric methods.
His doctoral research at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, builds upon this methodology, focusing on regularising font datasets for AI font generation systems through the LTTR/SET framework. His work demonstrates how pre-regularised datasets achieve superior results in transformer-based models.
Beyond type design and academia, he works as a digital product designer.
