Speaker Sofie Beier

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.