DEMYSTIFYING THE BUSINESS & CRAFT OF TYPE
Whether you’re a designer looking to expand your knowledge of type or a foundry trying to navigate the font business, we’ve got something for you. We offer courses, workshops, seminars, tutoring, and consulting on all aspects of the creative and business sides of the type world. We’re very excited to help you!
WHAT WE OFFER
Expand your design space
Learn from the best from the comfort of home: a short workshop or one of our 12-session courses.
Demystifying font business
Learn EVERYTHING about the font business. OEM and Enterprise Sales, Marketing, Pricing, Legal, and more.
Dedicated to client work
If you’re a foundry or design agency looking to consult a font expert, then you’ve arrived at the right place.
Step up your design game
Looking to fill in some missing pieces of the design puzzle? Book a tutoring session with an ILT instructor.
UPCOMING COURSES & SEMINARS
STUDENT WORK
OUR INSTRUCTORS

Dr. Nadine Chahine
Nadine is an award-winning Lebanese type designer. She is CEO at I Love Typography Ltd and principal at ArabicType Ltd. She has an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK; a PhD from Leiden University; and a Master of Studies in International Relations from Cambridge University. She has numerous awards, including two Awards for Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club in New York.

Rainer Scheichelbauer
Rainer was born in Vienna and studied photography, philosophy, and Dutch. Today, he creates and produces typefaces, teaches type design, holds type design workshops, translates Dutch books on typography into German, and writes articles and Python scripts. Rainer joined the Glyphs team in 2012 and has been writing tutorials and the Glyphs app handbook. He is also a co-founder of Schriftlabor font foundry in Vienna.

Julia Hiles
Julia has led sales teams for more than 20 years and has unparalleled expertise in enterprise sales. She understands customers like no one else and has a keen sense of what clients want and how to get them over the finish line. She is offering a sales enterprise course as well as several seminars to help foundries maximize their potential and help them navigate the complex world of enterprise sales and client negotiations.
OUR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
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On letterhood and teaching the why
Read more: On letterhood and teaching the whyThere is a question at the heart of type design: why do letters look the way they do? What makes an A, an A? There are many places where students can learn about what letters look like and…
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This isn’t your only typeface
Read more: This isn’t your only typefaceWriting from memory here of what it is like to be a beginner type designer. It was the love of outlines and the push and pull of white and black that got me hooked into type design, and…
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What is the DNA of a typeface?
Read more: What is the DNA of a typeface?Every good typeface contains within its outlines its own logic of creation, the reason why letters look the way they do. On a foundational level, this is driven by the structure upon which letterforms are built, the “writing”…