alifeee

Talks and Workshops!

A collection of talks and workshops I have given or done.

Font Workshop #

Make your own fonts!

Fonts are fun! Font creation should be accessible to anyone. This is a workshop to guide anyone through the process of making their own computer fonts, from handwriting fonts to custom-drawn, designed, copied, or modified ones.

After a short talk, I encourage experimentation with letter forms on paper, and then use of a laptop to digitally create your own font.

With one person (me) to offer wandering help, the workshop works well with up to 20 people, and takes around 1½ - 2 hours. Each person needs a laptop (or computer) which can have FontForge installed onto it, which are usually personal laptops.

picture of alifeee pointing towards presentation slide which says "OUTLINE A LEETTER FORM... Background layer for tracing images (File > Import)"
picture of alifeee presenting. a slide adjacent says "Why I like fonts... How to make a font... Design... FontForge" a picture of a sheet of paper, with lines and hand-drawn letter forms a picture of alifeee sat down at a desk with others, gesticulating. it looks like explaining is happening. a picture of a laptop screen, showing a cartoony font in the FontForge preview window. In the background: the FontForge documentation, the FontForge overview window, and the FontForge design window picture of alifeee chatting to people sat at a desk on laptops. it looks like explaining is happening picture of a laptop screen, showing a thick, poster-style letter N, in a FontForge preview window. In the background, a poster is visible which uses a similar font

Links

Run at

Font Talk #

A talk for Front-End Sheffield's (FES') March 2024 meetup on

Personal Website Workshop #

This is a workshop for people without a personal website (or anyone, really) to discover a small slice of the personal websites of the world, and to create their own.

My workshop notes are available as a downloadable Markdown file.