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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Reviving Unknown 16th-century Dutch TypePresenting the result of a type revival project of 16th-century type cut by an unknown punchcutter, researches and thoughts on the type. A type cut by an unknown punchcutter whose matrix is numbered MA174 in an inventory of Plantin Moretus Museum is the main theme. Interestingly, the letterform is not completely italic but has… Continue reading Reviving Unknown 16th-century Dutch Type |
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Pigs and Cups: Helping readers with dyslexiaReaders with dyslexia struggle to learn to read words quickly and efficiently. While much attention has been given to the role of letter shapes, the best recognized difficulty is mapping letters to the sounds of language. While this is a challenge with every written language, it is particularly challenging with the English writing system. English… Continue reading Pigs and Cups: Helping readers with dyslexia |
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Fishing FiguresIn the mid-nineteenth century, the French Ministry of the Navy ordered all fishermen to register their boats with local authorities. Drifter boats and sardine luggers were henceforth required to sport a clearly visible number and initial letter on their bows and sails, in order to help the gendarmes identify them.Whether or not a standard form… Continue reading Fishing Figures |
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Blurred Type: A look into typography for the visually impairedThe World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are currently at least 2.2 billion people with near or distance vision impairment, and in almost half of the cases, the vision impairment could have been prevented or are left unaddressed. This presentation will explore the importance of typography as a tool to support the reading experience… Continue reading Blurred Type: A look into typography for the visually impaired |
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| 10:30–11:00 |
Font Ergonomics—A new experimental paradigm using AIAfter more than 200 years of research, the topic of legibility still seems slippery when it comes to understanding the impact of typographic factors. The practical use of research papers for type designers sometimes seems unclear. Complex font variables like weight, width, or contrast are dealt with as if they were binary parameters instead of… Continue reading Font Ergonomics—A new experimental paradigm using AI |
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Type Unite. Experimental Typography |
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Uncovering the ATF Archives at the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian Institute “is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex” and currently holds in its collection – stored in a warehouse – close to 400 file folders of original drawings from American Type Founders. |
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Progress Report: Fontra, a new browser-based font editor |
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| 11:30–12:00 |
Diffenator 2: Better regression testing for font families |
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Tipos Latinos 9: The Latin American Type Biennial comebackThe Biennial Tipos Latinos is Latin America’s biggest typographic showcase. Fernando Mello and Henrique Nardi, both involved with the Biennial since its early years, will give a brief illustrated overview of the Biennial’s 18 years, discussing not only its history, its evolving structure, and statistics, but also the impact it has had on the continent’s… Continue reading Tipos Latinos 9: The Latin American Type Biennial comeback |
Shotaro Nakano 
Kevin Larson 
Yoann De Roeck 
Monica Hutama 
Octavio Pardo Virto 
Agnieszka Ziemiszewska 
Laura Chessin 
Jérémie Hornus 
Just van Rossum 
Marc Foley 
Simon Cozens 
Fernando Mello 
Henrique Nardi