Ben Kiel is a typeface designer, graphic designer, and educator. He runs Typefounding, a typeface design and production studio in Saint Louis, Missouri. Before starting Typefounding, he worked at House Industries where he worked as a typeface designer, director, and developer.
This workshop was a great intro course for someone who knows zilch about Python or any other languages (that was me). We started out drawing simple shapes in DrawBot which is an application that primarily serves an educational purpose, used as a tool to teach the basics of programming.
After getting a bit more comfortable and understanding the basics of variables, strings, etc… We moved on to applying this knowledge in robofont, writing simple scripts for making new glyphs, compiling, adding unicodes, etc… Later, we had a lot of fun experimenting with pens like SpikeGlyph and HalftoneGlyph. It was a super intense weekend, but I walked away with a solid introduction to Python.