Ulrike Rausch

Taking handwriting fonts to the next level

November 2, Saturday 10:50 – Salt Galata

Most people expect type designer Ulrike Rausch is sitting down with pen and paper to design her fonts. But actually, getting from the first drawings to a working font is not a purely analog process but rather a pretty geeky software endeavor. In her talk, Ulrike demonstrates how she combines numerous ligatures and alternative letterforms with sophisticated OpenType programming and latests font technology to produce handwriting fonts, that can hardly been recognized as a digital product anymore.

Biography

In 2009 Berlin-based type designer Ulrike Rausch founded her own type foundry called LiebeFonts, providing high-quality handwriting fonts with a charming personality and obsessive attention to detail. Ulrike combines her fondness for handwriting with her enthusiasm for code, sophisticated OpenType features, and latest font technology.

When Ulrike is not busy with her next font release, she enjoys teaching type design and font production at Universities or in online courses. Together with letterer and writer Chris Campe, she wrote the book “Making Fonts!”, a comprehensive guide to type design and font production.

In 2020 Ulrike decided to hit the books again in order to get her Master’s degree at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She successfully graduated in September 2022 with a great deal new knowledge about machines and technologies that reproduce handwriting.