Sofie Beier is a type designer and associate professor employed at the School of Design under The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where she is the head of the MA programme in Type & Wayfinding. She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art in London. Her research is focused on improving the reading experience by achieving a better understanding of how different typefaces and letter shapes can influence the way we read. Several of her typefaces have been published through Gestalten Fonts, among these the Karlo and the Ovink families.
Sofie Beier
Type Tricks
Typographic guidelines are hard to remember. With this book you don’t have to remember every single one of them. The book contains a number of tricks that designers need to know and understand.
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Type Tricks: User Design
What to consider when choosing fonts in difficult reading situations including signage, small point sizes, glance-like reading or scanning? But also what to look out for when designing for struggling readers.
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Type Tricks: Layout Design
'Sofie Beier strikes again adding a new book to the Type Tricks series. The new edition about Layout Design is as great as the previous edition on Type Design.' Marina Chaccur, Type Design Teacher at Royal Academy of Arts, The Hage (KABK).
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