Each month, a new module drops, taking you deeper into mastering optical adjustments, alignment, and weight balance, then building a complete typeface. Each lesson is structured with written demonstrations, visual references, and guided exercises you can follow at your own rhythm. This course is designed as an index to reference and return to, a manual for mastering type design.
First Edition, from FOSS BOOKS and @studio____objects
Working Font Architecture into something that sits between discipline and instinct, a book that treats type design not as software or style, but as architecture. A system and a way of seeing.
Developed through the lens of @boulevard___lab , the book traces the foundations of type; proportion, rhythm, spacing, tension, and pushes beyond them into contemporary form-making.
Font Architecture becomes both document and process. Capturing decisions, experiments, and the quiet logic behind every form. It’s for those who want more than aesthetics, for those looking to construct meaning, and depth in their typography.
More soon ☮️
Office Times UPDATE (2.0)
Full family, extended glyph set, and widely expanded characters. Coming end of May.
Direction @f___o___s___s
Early release via our Newsletter
A lot of designers rely on type.
Few understand how it’s built.
Font Architecture shares our studios practice, in-depth teachings on type design. Learn the full process of type design; from sketching letterforms to refining and digitizing them with professional tools.
Master optical adjustments, alignment, and weight balance, then build a complete, usable typeface. Develop an expert eye through guided critique and iteration to design fonts with precision and purpose no matter your skill level.
New Design Course: Font Architecture
What you’ll learn?
- Type anatomy, contrast, balance, spacing.
- Drawing and constructing letterforms by hand
- Control characters and alphabet systems.
- Professional type design software fundamentals.
- Optical adjustments beyond measurement.
- Critique and iteration as a designer.
- From concept to usable typeface
Type design elevates any design work, understanding how to build forms from scratch gives you full design control.
Learn more on our site.
FOSS MODERN is an open-source typeface designed to study. Neutral proportions, even rhythm, and disciplined geometry. Remix and rework.
RELEASING S☮️☮️N
SEEING TYPE DIFFERENTLY. We’ll get to precision, but first, expression. From sketching letterforms to refining and digitizing them with professional tools. Each month, a new module drops, guiding you deeper into mastering optical adjustments, alignment, and weight balance, and ultimately building a complete, working typeface. Every lesson blends written demonstrations, visual references, and guided exercises you can follow at your own rhythm. Designed as a living manual, this course is your ongoing reference for mastering the art and system of type design.
EARLY BIRD ENDS NOV. 20 🪩☯️🌀
🚨 Free Font of the Month 🚨
FOSS Serif designed by @boulevardtype for @f___o___s___s
The font is free for both personal and commercial use.
👉 Download link in bio
