Letter Luvvers #11

Meet-ups of Bristol’s makers, users and lovers of type and lettering.

Letter Luvvers

Calling all Letter Luvvers! Two speakers plus socializing with the excuse of fonts and letters — at the Stag &amp; Hounds, Bristol

The Stag and Hounds

We’re back with a midsummer event at the Stag &amp; Hounds, one of our favourite venues — carefully timed to avoid England football matches in case you need to see those. We have two main speakers lined up, notably a designer who is only in town briefly, so we’re really lucky to have her speak. More goodies for the evening listed below… Ana Sanikidze is a type designer from Tbilisi, Georgia. After years of working as a graphic designer in multiple advertising agencies, she decided to follow her passion for typography and got her master’s degree in Typeface Design from the University of Reading in the UK. Now, she loves sharing her knowledge by teaching typography and running workshops on Georgian calligraphy and lettering. Ana recently won the Granshan 2023/24 Grand Prize. She’ll talk about the Georgian script and its history. Additionally, she’ll share her process of harmonizing Georgian type for multiscript typesetting.<a href="http://instagram.com/wickedletters" title="http://instagram.com/wickedletters" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@wickedletters</a> Laurence Penney (font geek and Letter Luvvers host) will talk about the amazing maths that goes on inside the latest variable fonts. You likely already know about the “variation axes” that type designers define to allow their fonts to change shape smoothly, from Regular to Bold and so on. It turns out that the best axes for the brains of human font users are not quite the best axes when it comes to glyph geometry. So, a new layer has been defined that allows the perceptual axes to be “remapped” to the internal axes. Sounds scary (even font makers find it rather scary!) but Laurence’s new tool, Fencer, helps to visualize what’s going on and lets font engineers create the perfect human–font interface.<a href="https://www.instagram.com/laurence.penney" title="https://www.instagram.com/laurence.penney" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@laurence.penney</a> As well as the two talks, we’ll have a report from the <a href="https://berlinletters.com/" title="https://berlinletters.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Berlin Letters</a> festival by three travelling Letter Luvvers: Elliot Jay Stocks, Emma Luczyn and Jamie Clarke. They’re also live-blogging from the festival — subscribe to the popup newsletter <a href="https://buttondown.email/notes-from-a-different-typesetting" title="https://buttondown.email/notes-from-a-different-typesetting" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Notes From a Different Typesetting</a> to hear from them over this weekend. Jamie also <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C89roBTCWzk/" title="https://www.instagram.com/p/C89roBTCWzk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">promises some poster giveaways</a> of for his beautiful new typeface <a href="https://jamieclarketype.com/project/nave-typeface" title="https://jamieclarketype.com/project/nave-typeface" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nave</a>. Finally Gordon Young will give a little talk about word spacing on hot metal typesetting systems. Of course we’ll have the usual updates and the chance to have a catch-up with your fellow Letter Luvvers till late.

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