Videos from ATypI 2025 Copenhagen: release underway
Laurence Penney
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We are pleased—finally!—to begin releasing videos from the ATypI 2025 Copenhagen conference. We open with the following five talks:
- Petra Rüth — Backslanted Scripts in the Early Modern Period
- Julie Janet — Typefaces Beyond Words: The Shape of Trust
- Sofie Beier — The Role of x-height in Letter and Word Recognition
- Underware (Bas Jacobs, Sami Kortemaki) — Kaleidoscopic Entanglements Reflect Meaning in Type
- Kelli Anderson — Exploring Type History Through Touch (Keynote)
These talks reflect the richness, depth, and diversity of perspectives presented at Copenhagen—spanning history, technology, research, perception, experimentation, and material engagement with type.
The remaining videos will be published in the coming weeks to the ATypI 2025 Copenhagen playlist. We hope you enjoy revisiting these conversations—or discovering them for the first time.
We extend our sincere thanks to all speakers for their contributions, and we warmly encourage you to share your talks on social media. Tag ATypI (@atypi_org and @atypi_community on Instagram, ATypI on LinkedIn), and we will be glad to amplify your posts.
We also wish to thank the video editing team, led by Xunchang Cheng and Yuli Liu, for their dedicated work in preparing these recordings. The team includes volunteers from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tongji University, and the University of Reading.
We would like to apologize to our members—especially the speakers—for the delay in releasing these videos. This was due to difficult prioritization decisions made by the ATypI Board while navigating several challenges within a limited budget, as well as the significant editing necessitated by the lighting conditions during the conference.
You can explore the full list of talks via the Copenhagen program. We welcome your thoughts, questions, critiques, and continued discussions in the YouTube comments.
We invite you to join us at ATypI 2026 Stanford to attend numerous similarly diverse presentations, participate in workshops and tours, and—most importantly—develop fruitful relationships with colleagues in this wonderful field.
Finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the ATypI YouTube channel to be notified when new videos are released.
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There are some bangers in there Laurence. Many thanks!1
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You’re welcome, Miles!
We’d love to generate discussion in the comments, so if you have questions and critiques, do post them there.0 -
- Emma Conway — Letters in the Library
- Héctor Mangas Afonso, Mint Tantisuwanna — The Contemporary Effects of Thai Loops
- Simon Cozens — You’ve Got to Sharpen Your Chisels
- Mehrdad Sedaghat Baghbani — Decolonizing AI in Visual Design: Beyond the Western Canon
- Joana Ranito — Bangla on the Fly: A Component-Based Approach to Developing Fonts for North Indic Scripts
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- Emilios Theofanous, Gerry Leonidas — Unfinished Business for Greek Typography
- Nathan Willis — The Automation of Letter Fitting, 1522 to Present
- Shruthi Manjula Balakrishna — The Psychology of Typography in Upscale Dining
- Oleksandra Korchevska-Tsekhosh — Systematic to Parametric: Extracting Variable Design Principles from Ukrainian Type Heritage to Contemporary Fonts
- Keitaro Sakamoto, Yuka Homma — Scoreboard Symphony: The Story of Traditional Ballpark Typeface Development
0 - Emilios Theofanous, Gerry Leonidas — Unfinished Business for Greek Typography
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Congratulations putting all this together.
However, I do remember that the most memorable moments at ATypI conferences were the discussions at the hotel bar. Honestly I cannot remember a meaningful presentation from all the conferences I attended. But hey, good luck!0 -
- Joost Grootens — Graphic Strategies in Dictionary Typography (Keynote)
- Taurai Valerie Mtake — Reviving Afrikan Scripts: Integrating Indigenous Systems Into Modern Design
- Pascal Zoghbi — Future Support of Arabic Typography
- Fraser Muggeridge — Typography in Education Since 1995
- Mark Jamra, Neil Patel — The Atypical Path to Proliferation of the Sunuwar Script
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Actually I do remember the content of one pressentation I saw. I cannot remember which conference, either Type 87 or Type 90. David Berlow and Veronica Elsner were on stage drinking Martinis and discussing their preference in font editing software. I can't recall their software preferences, but I remember the Martinis.2
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The AtypI in Lyon may have been the perfect set-up. The conference venue had a bar directly next to the lecture hall. It was much more fun hanging out and chatting with colleagues than attending a lecture on the history of the semicolon.0
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How is this relevant? Please make your own thread about this for those that are interested. Thanks.-1
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How is this relevant?
Beats me. But my post about the conference session featuring the Martinis recieved 2 Insightful comments, so.......You're welcome.
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ATypI gatherings have changed a lot over the decades. Initially, in the 1950s and ’60s ATypI congresses were primarily business meetings between the major typesetting machine manufacturers. Gradually, they also became venues for typeface designers to meet, and only latterly became something like a conference format with presentations/lectures. I attended regularly between 1994 and 2005, and during that time ATypI shifted further, away from a business/professional association, and towards a more academic conference.
Like James, I spent a good deal of time at the conferences talking with colleagues in the hallways, nearby cafés, or hotel bars, but that’s sort of what ATypI was still for in those years. It was evolving, but it was still — perhaps primarily — a place for people to get together and discuss business, gripe about issues in the industry, and organise to do something about them.
The recent Paris and Copenhagen conferences I attended felt different. When sessions were in progress, I saw very few people out in the hallways or common areas: pretty much everyone was attending one or other of the presentations. As was often the case over the years, the most interesting sessions for me were ad hoc tech meetings, usually arising out of specific issues needing timely attention and organised on site e.g. during the lunchtime break. That happened in Paris, so is still something for which ATypI can provide a forum.4 -
A further thought: I have the impression that ATypI is now a significant conference for researchers and educators affiliated with academic institutions, for whom presenting at international gatherings is an important career contribution. There’s clearly a need for such a conference with a typographic focus, but just as typographical and type design education has shifted from on-the-job learning into an academic framework since the 1990s, the culture has changed as a result.3
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In regards to Gerry Leonidas’ lecture, I knew that Greek digital typesetting was in need of a review but not the specifics. The details were fascinating and I’ve never heard Greek defined as a (technically) triple-cased script before. The statement about needing new keyboards actually reminded me of this thread.It’s interesting that this lack of proper support introduces enough friction that some people work around it—like the person handwriting a correct Kai /Ϗ on a note but using the Latin Ampersand /& when typing out a sign. Not that I blame them. That’s just human nature.1
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- Rony Ginosar — Inbetween: Intuitive Design for Variable Font Specimens
- Yehang Yin — Towards Infinite Styles: Do We Even Need Fonts?
- Michael McDermott — Variable Wood Type: Translating the Digital to Physical
- Lasse Fister — Parametric Typography With Parametric Fonts
- Hao-Mei Wang — Streamlining and Flexible Traditional Chinese Type Design with Open-Source Character Set
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Laurence, thank you so much for sharing. I guess I know what I will be doing for the rest of the weekend.1
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- Abeera Kamran, Dina Benbrahim, Hussein Salem, Mohammad Sharaf, Naïma Ben Ayed, Omaima Dajani, Pascal Zoghbi, Sahar Afshar — From Calligraphy to Pixels: Investigating Modern Arabic Type
- Ann Bessemans, Ewa Satalecka, Kevin Bormans — Design for Digital Reading: Insights and Future Horizons
- Christoffer Birkkjær, Tore Rosbo — Variable Type and Generative Handwriting in Brand Design
- Marcin Władyka, Ola Kot — Shifting From Static Book to Variable Interactions
- Eunbee Lee — AI in Typeface Design: Beyond Automation to Understanding
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- Nagisa Chen, Willie Liu — A Cross-Script Dialogue: The Translation and Localization Editing of Designing Type Revivals
- Gwen Yeh — The Value and Innovation of Traditional Inherited Typefaces in Contemporary Times
- Shiyang He — Emerging Market: The Need for Non-Chinese Typefaces in the Chinese Market
- Céline Hurka, Stefaniia Bodnia — Seasummer: A Variable Font Telling the Story of European Border Politics
- Héctor Gómez — Digital Imprints of Ancient Mexico
0 - Nagisa Chen, Willie Liu — A Cross-Script Dialogue: The Translation and Localization Editing of Designing Type Revivals
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- Linda Hintz — Other Ways
- Monika Marek-Łucka — How the West Discovered the Fluidity of Letters: Footnotes to the History of Writing
- Chen-Yin Chiang — Toward Inclusive Typography: Revitalizing Taiwan’s Native Languages Through Type
- Niaz Mirmobini — The Impact of Arabic Ligatures on Reading Performance
- Hao-Mei Wang — Streamlining and Flexible Traditional Chinese Type Design with Open-Source Character Set
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After reviewing some of these, I can now rest, assured that I haven't missed anything by not attending any conferences all these years.
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