I can definitely recommend the course. An extraordinary place, nice people, good type and an outstanding teacher. Overall a great experience. (View Post)
Hi Daniel, maybe this is somehow useful for you. Troy Leinster, one of my classmates at Type and Media wrote an article about his experience here: http://typographica.org/on-typography/undergrad-to-c… (View Post)
I would start with RoboFab. It works in several font editors and has simple examples of how to access font data. There are also basic python scripts. http://robofab.org (View Post)
When using vfb2ufo I had problems with unnamed global guides in an ufo. That is maybe what Paul is referring to. I always make sure that those have a name otherwise the .vfb can not be reconverted pr… (View Post)