You’ll need the following to join any of our classes online:

• A decent internet connection capable for video
• A computer with a microphone and webcam
• Zoom and Discord accounts (both free)

If a class requires anything more, it will be listed on it’s page.

Classes are held live via Zoom. Lectures are recorded and available to rewatch for three months after your course ends, whether you miss a class or simply want to review the material.

Feedback sessions, on the other hand, are not recorded and must be attended live. Make up feedback sessions are at the discretion of the instructor.

All sessions are conducted in English.

We accept the following forms of payment in US currency:

• Credit card
• PayPal

By special arrangement, we can also accept bank transfers from most countries.

A payment plan is available for Latin Two and Devanagari Two, for those paying by credit card or PayPal. You’ll have the option to pay in four monthly installments, with an additional $100 added to the total tuition payment.

Our sliding scale operates on the honor system and means that students decide which tier they can afford. Our hope is to offer reduced tuition to some students that might otherwise take the form of something like scholarships or grants. But instead of us defining criteria that conform to our own definition of “need” (maybe we get it right, maybe we don’t), we want you, the student, to make that determination. It’s your choice, on your terms.

In order for this to work, not everyone can pay only the lowest tier. If that happened, Practica would eventually be underfunded and unable to continue. If you have the means to select the higher tuition tiers, we encourage you to do so. Not only will you be helping Practica become a sustainable platform, but you’ll also be helping others access a unique educational experience.

If you withdraw 5 days or more before the first day of the course, you will receive a refund of tuition paid up to that date. After that time, all payments are non-refundable. 

Any request to cancel your enrollment must be received in writing to hello@practicaprogram.com.

In the unlikely event that we cancel a course for any reason, payments made up to the point of cancellation will be fully refunded.

It’s like magic, but for typefaces. Seriously though … When applied to typefaces, interpolation is a mathematical means of creating intermediate instances from two or more sets of data. “Data,” in this case, refers to a weight or style of a typeface.

For example, imagine you’ve drawn a thin and bold weight of a typeface and plan to create regular and medium weights too. Instead of drawing the regular and medium by hand, you could use the data you already have (the thin and bold) and let the computer automagically figure out the drawings for the regular and medium. The automagic part is interpolation.

The thin and bold in this case are called masters. They represent the two weights that the other weights (or “instances,” in interpolation land) are based on. To interpolate, a typeface must have at least two masters drawn — but it can have more than two masters as well. Creating new weights is a very typical use of interpolation, but it can also be used for width, slant, or more imaginative axes.

Courses generally run once a year. If the timing of a class doesn’t work for you, your next chance to take it again will be in roughly one year from the start of the course.