Om Typ

Typ er et analyseinstitut med specialiseret viden om skrifttypers læsbarhed. Vi benytter evidensbaserede testmetoder til måling af skrifttypers effekt på læseren for dermed at kunne hjælpe vores kunder med at træffe velinformerede beslutninger om brug af typografi.

Ledelse

Peter Graabæk

Peter Graabæk
Partner og administrativ ansvarlig

Peter Graabæk er uddannet kommunikationsdesigner fra Danmarks Designskole og har mange års erfaring med udvikling af kommunikations- og typografidesign. Hans praktiske designerfaring hjælper til at identificere kundernes behov og styre projekter mod optimalt resultatet.

Sofie Beier

Sofie Beier, PhD
Partner og research-ansvarlig

Sofie Beier er international anderkendt forsker i skrifttypers læsbarhed og professor MSO ved Det Kongelige Akademi. Hun har en lang karriere inden for akademisk forskning og er forfatter til flere bøger og adskillige akademiske artikler om typografi og læsbarhed.

Udvalgte akademiske artikler

Minakata, K., Eckmann-Hansen, C., Larsen, M., Bek, T. & Beier, S. (2023) The effect of serifs and stroke contrast on low vision readers with Autosomal dominant optic atrophy, Acta Psychologica, 232, 103810.

Minakata, K. & Beier, S. (2022) The dispute about sans serif versus serif fonts: An interaction between the variables of serif and stroke contrast, Acta Psychologica 228, 103623.

Pedersen, P., Oderkerk, C. & Beier, S., (2022) ‘Simplification of pharmaceutical pictograms to improve visual acuity’, Information Design Journal, 26(3).

Beier, S., & Oderkerk, C. A. (2022). Closed letter counters impair recognition. Applied Ergonomics, 101, 103709.

Oderkerk, C. A., & Beier, S. (2022). Fonts of wider letter shapes improve letter recognition in parafovea and periphery. Ergonomics, 65(5), 753–761.

Minakata, K. & Beier, S. (2021) The effect of font width on eye movements during reading. Applied Ergonomics, 97.

Beier, S. & Oderkerk, C. A.T. (2021) High letter stroke contrast impairs letter recognition of bold fonts. Applied Ergonomics, 97.

Beier, S., Oderkerk, C. A.T., Bay, B., & Larsen, M. (2021). Increased letter spacing and greater letter width improve reading acuity in low vision readers. Information Design Journal, 73–88.

Thiessen, M., Beier, S. & Keage, H. (2020) A Review of the Cognitive Effects of Disfluent Typography on Functional Reading, The Design Journal, 23.5, 797-815.

Beier, S. & Oderkerk, C.A.T. (2019). ‘Smaller Visual Angles Show Greater Benefit of Letter Boldness than Larger Visual Angles’. Acta Psychologica 199 (August): 102904. 1–8.

Beier, S. & Oderkerk, C.A.T. (2019) ‘The effect of age and font on reading ability’, Visible Language, 53.3, 51–69.

Beier, S., Bernard, J.B. & Castet, E. (2018) ‘Numeral legibility and visual complexity’, Proceedings of DRS2018, Design Research Society, vol. 5, 1841-1854, Limerick, 25th-28th June.

Beier, S, Starrfelt, R. & Sand, K. (2017) ‘Legibility Implications of Embellished Display Typefaces’, Visible Language, 51.1, 112-132.

Dyson, M. & Beier, S. (2016) ’Investigating typographic differentiation: Italics are more subtle than bold for emphasis’, Information Design Journal, 22(1), 3-18.

Beier, S. (2016) ’Designing legible fonts for distance reading’, in: Digital Fonts and Reading, Book series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems, M. C. Dyson and C. Y. Suen (eds.), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, vol. 1, Chapter 5, 75-89.

Bogudgivelser

Beier, S, (2022) Type Tricks: User Design, BIS Publishers, 1–208

Beier, S. (2021) Type Tricks: Layout Design, BIS Publishers, 1–208

Beier, S. (2017) Type Tricks: Your Personal Guide to Type Design, BIS Publishers, 1–216 (oversat til Kinesisk, Koreansk og Spansk).

Beier, S. (2012) Reading Letters: designing for legibility, BIS Publishers, 1–190.

typetricks

DA