Upcoming Workshops:
Script typeface design
Online, January 2023
Watch recent talks:
Yeah, together with Chris Campe I wrote a book about type design and font production:
→ Making Fonts!
→ Designing Fonts
I was invited to Japan, in order to give a talk and a color font workshop at Spectrum Design Fest in Tokyo.
I had the pleasure to give a talk at c’t webdev
In my talk at Fontstand Conference in The Hague, I shared some insights about what it takes to create handwriting fonts.
I traveled to Utrecht in order to talk about type nerdiness at Fronteers Conference.
I gave a talk at Visibel Fagdagene in Oslo
Watch the recording of the Adobe Fonts Show, where I talked about color fonts!
I had the pleasure to talk about LiebeHeide’s making of at Typografische Gesellschaft München.
What a ride! So much energy and love during Beyond Tellerrand Conference in Düsseldorf! I felt a bit like a rockstar. ;-)
What a nice audience at We Love Graphic Design! I gave a talk about all the possibilities, font technology offers us today. During my presentation I demonstrated some playful type experiments that showed evidence: type is not just for reading but it’s fun and entertaining, too.
I gave a color fonts workshop at Design Matters conference in Copenhagen. So many cool results in only 1.5 hours!
Haven’t heard about OpenType features, yet? In this livestream at Adobe Fonts, you will learn what OpenType features are and how to add more variety to your typographic design.
I had a nice evening at BDG-Feierabend on air, showing the process of creating handwriting fonts.
Unlock the Fun! Marc Thiele invited me to show some playful possibilities in font technology at his all-new Stay Curious event.
I gave a talk at ATypI All Over and shared the process of my color font LiebeHeide. Watch the video to learn more about this new technology!
Go watch the recording of the Creative Mornings talk I gave together with Chris Campe and learn about when a prefabricated font is more suitable for your projects and when it makes more sense to use a custom lettering.
I was invited to the beautiful city of Faenza in Italy to give a talk at Kerning conference
I am proud to be co-organizing the Berlin Letters festival, where I also gave a talk on what to keep in mind when producing a hand-written font.
2-day type design workshop in Munich.
More information and content of teaching here.
(April 16–17, 2019)
At The Design Kids I shared some knowledge about running my own type foundry.
I was in Leipzig and talked at Typotable about my type foundry and my work flow
I gave a lecture at Hochschule Niederrhein
New LiebeFonts app:
Fifty lovely ways to say “Nö”
A set of 50 hand-crafted stickers for iOS 10
I had the pleasure to share some insights regarding the technical aspects of type design during TypeLab at Typographics, New York
I talked about my work as a type designer and the importance of the use of OpenType Features at TYPO Berlin, biggest design conference in Europe. Watch the recording of the talk!
I gave a talk at TYPO Labs conference.
Watch my talk about what a font is capable of thanks to OpenType features and how applications often fail to support them!
Talk at Kuttners Schöne Nerdnacht
New Release:
please welcome LiebeGerda to the LiebeFonts family!
Talk at Ladies, Wine & Design
See the video recording.
Lecture at HBK Saar
(College of Fine Arts)
Talk at Tag der Typografie Wiesbaden
Talk at Pecha Kucha Berlin at Heimathafen Neukölln
Tech Talk at Typotechnikstammtisch Berlin
Talk at Walbaum-Wochenende
New custom brush font for bareMinerals cosmetic brand
Talk at up.front
Talk at Women Who Code
Talk at TYPO Day Hamburg
Talk at Women Techmakers
I will give a talk about OpenType features at TypoDay Köln in September
Blog post about the Beyond TYPO font on Alphabettes
Talk about fonts with hand-written look at Typostammtisch
You can now download the Beyond TYPO font I made in cooperation with artist Steff Hengge for free at the TYPO Berlin website
LiebeLotte was selected by FontShop as one of the best typefaces of 2015
Talk at Tag der Schrift
Article on Medium about the making of LiebeLotte: “You Say Cute, I Say Code”
LiebeDoris font is among Typographica’s favorite
typefaces of 2014
Twitter Q&A with LiebeFonts as part of Women in Design Week at FontShop
TypeTalk at the Berlin Apple Store
Interview Fünf Fragen an
LiebeFontsat FontShop
Interview Creative Characters at
MyFonts.com
Talk about LiebeKlara at Typografische Gesellschaft München
Review of LiebeKlara font at MyFonts.de
Contribution to Slanted Magazine #17 for the theme Cartoon/Comic (page 62)
LiebeFonts’ iOS app LiebeZoo now available at the App Store
Interview at Typografie.info
LiebeDoni mentioned at FontBlog
LiebeDoni featured at Before and After magazine
Article about my lettering work at Letterjazz (in German)
Presentation of LiebeErika font at DMIG magazine
Talk about LiebeFonts at Typostammtisch
LiebeErika is amongst MyFonts’ top selling fonts of 2010