Welcome to Copenhagen, welcome to ATypI 2025! From local team lead Sofie Beier and ATypI President Carima El-Behairy.
Involved in “the Business of Type” for 30 years, first as one of the founders and Managing Partner of P22 type foundry, then with TypeCon from 1999 and then elected for the first time to the Board of ATypI in 2012. Served as ATypI’s CFO, re-elected back to the board in 2024 as ATypI Treasurer, and later that year elected ATypI President.
Sofie Beier is a graphic designer and professor at the Royal Danish Academy, specializing in improving typeface legibility and making reading accessible to everyone. Her research, grounded in psychophysics, explores how typographic choices influence reading performance and visual perception. With a strong interest in technology, she investigates ways to enhance reading experiences through innovations like AI and eye-tracking technologies. In addition to authoring the book series Type Tricks and Reading Letters: Designing for Legibility, she has published numerous academic papers on typeface legibility and is also a partner at the typeface analysis institute Typ.
