Type Electives Lecture Series:

Type Designer AMA Series with Troy Leinster

Join our Type Electives directors Juan and Lynne for an insightful discussion on “Finishing and Publishing a Typeface” with an focus on business and marketing, featuring special guest Troy Leinster.

Juan and Lynne will begin by sharing the basics on how to finish and publish a typeface. They will then be joined by Troy, founder of the type foundry Leinster Type and instructor of the Type@Cooper program in NYC.

Together, they’ll dive deeper and engage in a lively conversation answering community-submitted questions, exploring topics such as “How does one know when a font is 'finished'?”, “Is it better to publish typeface independently than submitting to foundries?”, followed by a Q&A session from our audience.

Send us your questions through our Instagram @typeelectives

The event will be hosted online via Zoom.

We look forward to having you with us!

Troy Leinster

Troy Leinster (he/him) is an Independent Typeface Designer from Brisbane, Australia. He holds a master’s Degree in Typeface Design from the Type & Media program at The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, The Netherlands—and a Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design from the Type@Cooper Program at Cooper Union in New York.

From 2014–2021, Troy was a full-time typeface designer at the Hoefler&Co Type Foundry in New York. In 2022, he launched Leinster Type, with retail typefaces including Brisbane, Sedgwick, and Aligne.

Troy has accumulated over ten years of typeface design experience and has been teaching the Principles of Typeface Design course at Cooper Union in NYC since 2016. In 2020, Troy founded Typemasters, an online one-on-one coaching service to support designers through the process of making a typeface.

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