Rainer Scheichelbauer
Associate
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolRainer Scheichelbauer is a type designer, digital punchcutter, and educator with 14 years of professional experience building tools and typefaces from concept to retail. He runs Schriftlabor in Vienna, creating custom corporate type and OpenType fonts, and collaborates with Georg Seifert at Glyphs GmbH on a font editor used by designers worldwide. A seasoned workshop leader and conference speaker, he blends practical foundry work with pedagogy—after 15 years teaching type-related courses at Graphische. His background in photography, audiovisual media, philosophy and Dutch studies gives his work a cross-disciplinary sensibility that informs both visual detail and typographic systems. Ambitious yet hands-on, he bridges traditional punchcutting craftsmanship with contemporary digital font production.
14 years of coding experience
Mag.phil., Nederlandistik, Mag.phil., Nederlandistik at Universität WienDiplom für Fotografie und audiovisuelle Medien, Kolleg für Fotografie, Diplom für Fotografie und audiovisuelle Medien, Kolleg für Fotografie at Graphische
German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (106)
python10
bounding10
menu10
realms10
phonetics10
python-scripts10
menu-item10
cjk10
background-service10
sdk10
opentype10
fonts10
scripting10
quality-assurance10
textmate10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mekkablue/InsertInflections
Feb 2014 - Nov 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 6 comments in 6 years 10 months
glyphsinflectionsnodesinsertpath
schriftgestalt/glyphs-packages
May 2016 - Dec 2022
Repository to collect all available plugins for Glyphs
Contributions:328 commits, 11 PRs, 323 pushes in 6 years 8 months
collectglyphsbackground-servicepluginplugins
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