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Typography on Screen

with Anselm Dästner

This ain’t print! Learn best practices for screen-based typography including responsive design, font pairing, type animations, and more.

  • Date
  • Time
  • What Public Workshop
  • Where Online via Zoom
  • Duration 4 sessions, 3 hours each

Create beautiful typography for screens with Anselm Dästner, a UX designer based in New York City’s East Village. Learn how to generate responsive typography that adapts beautifully to any screen size and resolution, and discover fresh techniques, including animating your type, working with variable fonts, and confidently choosing between units of measurement for screen typography.

Anselm Dästner

Anselm Dästner is a graphic design consultant. Throughout his career, Dastner has been at the cutting edge of graphic design and technology. He designed MTV’s first websites and Samsung’s first DVD releases. He also co-founded a monthly print magazine entitled “Flyer,” which had a circulation of 100,000. Dastner is an organizer of the typography meet-up, “TypeThursday” in New York City. His studio/storefront in the East Village is a space for design events as well as a shop selling prints, T-shirts, stickers, posters, books and more, also available online. These days, he is a consultant solving User Experience design issues on internet platforms and teaches Ux/UI Graphic Design at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design in New York City. He speaks German, English, some Japanese, and geek. He also dreams in code.

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