Every day millions of people look at text on the web. As designers we should be striving to make those reading experiences as good as possible, but with technology moving so quickly and design trends changing all the time it can feel hard to keep up. This workshop will set your team up for the future by teaching typographic fundamentals alongside the latest techniques.

In this day-long workshop (or two half-days) your team will learn to create websites with engaging, appropriate, distinctive, expressive and readable web typography, and provide the best reading experiences for your users and customers.

Whether a designer or a developer, just starting out, or a seasoned pro, this masterclass is designed to bring typographic fundamentals and into your daily working practices.

Over the course of a day your team will participate in hands-on activities, applying each new technique to a detailed example site. This will form the perfect resource for your team to refer to in the future. And if that’s not enough, every attendee will walk away with the latest edition of Richard’s acclaimed Web Typography book.

• You’ll learn about choosing and pairing typefaces, and how to make the best use of variable fonts.
• You’ll learn best practices for punctuation, widows and orphans, spacing and layout, including fluid typography for a truly responsive experience.
• We’ll cover the hidden features of OpenType such as tabular numerals, expressive ligatures, and alternate glyphs.
• We’ll cover the very latest typographic developments in CSS - there’s been huge progress over the past couple of years.
• Ultimately we’ll see how to integrate all that knowledge into a design system, and how designers and developers can speak the same typographic language.

Who should attend

This workshop is perfect for both designers and front-end developers, and anyone else responsible for setting text on the web.

Training the Clearleft way

Our training is always adapted to the needs of your team.

Ahead of the training, we’ll talk to you about your specific needs so we can target the content to the skills, experience and needs of your team.

Tailored

We’ll work with you to shape the training to the size of the group and your team’s level of knowledge, customised to your specific challenges.

In-person or online

We can run training at your offices, our studio in Brighton, or fully remote for distributed teams, arranging a date that works for you.

Road-tested

We regularly apply the techniques you'll learn in your training as part of our client services.

Follow up

Training is only as good as the change it creates. We’ll follow up with attendees once they’ve had a chance to use their new skills.