Speaker Ann Bessemans

Prof. Dr. Ann Bessemans is a legibility expert and award-winning typographic and type designer. She founded the READSEARCH legibility research group at the PXL-MAD School of Arts and Hasselt University, where she teaches typography and type design. Ann is the program director of the international Master program “Reading Type & Typography.” She received her PhD from Leiden University and Hasselt University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerard Unger. Ann is a member of the Data Science Institute UHasselt and the Young Academy of Belgium and is a lecturer at the Plantin Institute of Typography.

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