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A Designer’s Salon: Typography Today
May 22, 2019
6:30–8 pm

Adults $8; Seniors/Students $5; Free for BGC Members
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

A Designer’s Salon: Typography Today is a conversation about digital typography, variable fonts, accessibility and digital democracy featuring Dave Crossland and Eli Heuer.

Dave Crossland is an English type designer who set out in 2006 to liberate typography, studying and working to realize his dream of an unrestricted culture of graphic communication. He works as a consultant with the Google Fonts team and has commissioned hundreds of typefaces for dozens of scripts. He is also co-founded the Crafting Type project to offer type design workshops for beginners around the world.

Eli Heuer is a libre software developer and typographer who has worked with Jacobin Magazine, Google Fonts, and the TruFont project. He blogs at https://elih.blog.

This programs is kindly supported by Google.

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