Conference ATypI Paris 2023
You’re invited to celebrate all things in typography and type design! Join us in the fabulous city of Paris, as we celebrate being together and taking part of the latest discourses in typography and type design from all over the world. This will be our sixty-seventh annual conference of the non-profit Association Typographique Internationale. So mark your calendars for May 9-14, 2023, and join us as we travel to the incroible City of Light!
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Arcade Game Type Design—afternoon—SOLD OUTSorbonne University, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Pl. Jussieu. Check in 15 minutes before session start time. 15:00-18:00 GMT+23-hour half-day afternoon session Arcade games from the 1970s to the 2000s are a treasure trove of amazing pixelated fonts. They were mostly Latin and Japanese monospaced fonts designed in an 8×8 pixel grid. Being designed… Continue reading Arcade Game Type Design—afternoon—SOLD OUT |
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| 11:30–13:00 |
Let’s Make a Variable COLRv1 Font!—late morning—SOLD OUTSorbonne University, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Pl. Jussieu. Check in 15 minutes before session start time. 11:30-13:00 GMT+21.5-hour late morning session During this workshop you will learn how to make a variable color font with variable gradients. We will prepare the designs in Glyphs and then export them using the command line in… Continue reading Let’s Make a Variable COLRv1 Font!—late morning—SOLD OUT |
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| 11:30–13:30 |
Intro to Copperplate Calligraphy With Maria Montes—late morningSorbonne University, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Pl. Jussieu. Check in 15 minutes before session start time. 11:30-13:30 GMT+22-hour late morning session In this two-hour hands-on workshop for beginners, you’ll learn the foundations of Copperplate calligraphy using a flexile pointed pen and walnut ink. The workshop will be focused on the lowercase alphabet. Workshop… Continue reading Intro to Copperplate Calligraphy With Maria Montes—late morning |
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| 09:00–17:00 |
Sensory Type—full daySorbonne University, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Pl. Jussieu. Check in 15 minutes before session start time. 09:00-17:00 GMT+2Full-day session Type is modular. When broken down, it is a series of shapes and forms. The Sensory Type workshop allows participants to explore type not only visually, but also embodied through movement and sound. We… Continue reading Sensory Type—full day |
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Parametric Type Design Done Right—full daySorbonne University, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Pl. Jussieu. Check in 15 minutes before session start time. 09:00-17:00 GMT+2Full-day session The parametric approach to type design is back and better than ever! Learn how to do it right with our workshop, which teaches you how to use your favorite type design tool, Glyphs powered… Continue reading Parametric Type Design Done Right—full day |
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| 09:00–12:00 |
Hangul Lettering Workshop With Multilingual Font-matching—morning—SOLD OUTSorbonne University, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Pl. Jussieu. Check in 15 minutes before session start time. 09:00-12:00 GMT+23-hour morning half-day session Providing the basic contents of Hangul design, we will explain how to design Hangul and match multiple scripts. Designers are given Latin, Japanese, and Chinese fonts without showing the Korean version, and… Continue reading Hangul Lettering Workshop With Multilingual Font-matching—morning—SOLD OUT |
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| 09:00–11:00 |
The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Type Design—early morningSorbonne University, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Pl. Jussieu. Check in 15 minutes before session start time. 09:00-11:00 GMT+22-hour early morning session The Crafting Type project has provided an introduction-to-typeface-design class to more people in more countries around the world than any other organization. In this two-part workshop, project co-founder Dave Crossland will first… Continue reading The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Type Design—early morning |
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Multilingual Matching Design Based on Chinese Calligraphic Fonts—early morning—WORKSHOP CANCELLED09:00-11:00 GMT+22-hour early morning session Under the trend of design globalization, the demand of Chinese domestic designers to find Western fonts matching with Chinese fonts for design applications is increasing day by day; at the same time, with the increasing influence of Chinese in the world, the Chinese market is receiving more and more international… Continue reading Multilingual Matching Design Based on Chinese Calligraphic Fonts—early morning—WORKSHOP CANCELLED |
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| 16:00–16:30 |
CryptoKit, a semantic map of blockchain technologyThe CryptoKit project provides a visual mapping of blockchain technology and Web3 protocols to make them accessible to a wide audience. It includes an open source typeface of more than 200 pictograms of key blockchain terms. When paired with IBM Plex, these icons can be set up in didactic diagrams on the dedicated website (www.cryptokit.ch).… Continue reading CryptoKit, a semantic map of blockchain technology |
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| 15:30–16:00 |
Wander Type: Vieux CarréWander Type: Vieux Carré is part of a research project that investigates understudied and underrepresented typography found in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is part of the Wander Type Project whose birth was first presented by my peers at ATypI in 2020 in the middle of the pandemic. I will present the… Continue reading Wander Type: Vieux Carré |
Toshi Omagari 
Lena Weber 
Sophia Tai 
Maria Montes 
Luisa Muhr 
Shrenik Ganatra 
Filip Paldia 
Samuel Čarnoký 
Jinhee Kim 
Suhyun Lee 
Dave Crossland 
Wen Wang 
Anthony Masure 
Guillaume Helleu 
Océane Juvin 
Nicholas Waguespack