Speaker Sofie Beier

Sofie Beier is a professor at the Royal Danish Academy and head of the Centre for Visibility Design, where she leads a multidisciplinary team exploring how typography and visual design affect reading performance. Her research is grounded in psychophysics and focuses on improving typeface legibility – particularly for readers with visual or cognitive challenges, as well as in demanding reading situations.

She is the author of Reading Letters: Designing for Legibility and the Type Tricks series, and has published widely on evidence-based approaches to typeface legibility. As co-founder of the typeface analysis studio Typ, she collaborates with industry partners to translate scientific findings into practical design solutions.

Beier has been a regular speaker at ATypI conferences for over two decades, sharing research that bridges design practice and scientific inquiry to advance typographic accessibility and reader-centred design.