Type Lab
Practical workshops on web typography — from typeface selection to advanced layout hierarchy. Work through real assignments, not slides.
Available workshop sessions
4 sessions listed
Typography 11 left
Web Typography Foundations
A focused course on the core principles of type on screen — from font selection to spacing systems that actually hold up across devices.
Typography 8 left
Variable Fonts in Practice
A hands-on course on using variable fonts in real web projects — axes, animation, performance trade-offs, and browser support realities.
Typography 14 left
Typographic Hierarchy for the Web
A practical course on building readable, structured text layouts — for developers and designers who want type that guides attention without decoration.
Typography 6 left
Type Performance and Loading
A technical course on web font loading — reducing layout shift, controlling render behaviour, and keeping page weight reasonable without sacrificing type quality.
How each workshop is structured
Every session follows a consistent arc — short conceptual framing, then hands-on work. Participants spend most time building and testing, not reading.
Concept briefing
A focused intro covers the typographic principle at stake — hierarchy, rhythm, contrast — with specific browser examples, not abstract theory.
Guided assignment
Participants work through a step-by-step exercise using real HTML and CSS. Each step builds directly on the last.
Open experiment
A second unguided pass lets participants break things intentionally and study the result. Mistakes here are the point.
Group critique
Work is reviewed together. Feedback focuses on readability decisions, not aesthetics — why a choice works or does not.
Typography education built for remote participants across the province
Salbenoru has offered online typography workshops since 2022, connecting students from across Ontario who would otherwise have no access to structured, instructor-led type training.
Sessions run entirely online, with no software beyond a browser and a text editor. The format is designed around geographic flexibility — participants join from small towns and major cities alike.
About the platformWhat participants work on directly
Type scale systems
Building a modular scale in CSS — choosing ratios, testing at multiple viewport widths, and adjusting for screen density.
Variable font axes
Working directly with font-variation-settings to control weight, width, and optical size in real browser conditions.
Reading line measurement
Measuring and correcting ch-width containers, line-height stacking, and paragraph rhythm across different typefaces.
Who runs these sessions
Each workshop is led by a practitioner — someone currently working with type in production environments, not only in academic contexts.
Teodor Vašíček
Type Systems Lead
Works on type implementation for editorial digital products. Runs the scale and hierarchy workshops.
Hierarchy
Brigitte Ó Néill
Web Typography Specialist
Focuses on variable fonts and responsive text. Has shipped type systems for three SaaS products.
Variable Fonts
Sunita Aggerwal
Readability Researcher
Studies line-length, contrast, and reading patterns in web interfaces. Leads the accessibility-focused workshop track.
AccessibilityStudents from across the province, one shared space
Participants join from communities across Ontario — from Windsor to Thunder Bay. Sessions run at consistent times and recorded segments are available asynchronously for those in different time zones.
No physical attendance is ever required. The platform was built with that constraint in mind from the first session.
