Speaker Héctor Mangas Afonso

Born in Spain, Hector currently collaborates with Dutch foundry Typotheque as their in-house cognitive researcher. His work focuses on studying and measuring accessibility and social markers in the different writing systems Typotheque works with.

With a background in Cognitive Neuroscience, Hector completed an MSc in Applied Cognitive Psychology at Utrecht University (NL), where he started to explore the field of typography and accessibility.

He’s worked with Attention Lab, in the Department of Experimental Psychology of Utrecht University, to research readability in body text and has collaborated and published with Sofie Beier (DK), also interested in accessibility of text.