Filip Blažek
Czech
Research, book and tool about all 24 official EU languages
Typographic rules for quotation marks, numbers, punctuation, spacing and symbols reflect each language’s cultural heritage. Yet globalisation and standardised software often lead to their neglect. The Typofix project, initiated by Filip Blažek and Radek Sidun, brings together an international team of experts to create an open database of typographic rules and a web app that automatically corrects typographic errors across all 24 official EU languages.
Supporters
UMPRUM
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague is one of the leading educational institutions in the field of architecture, design and fine arts in Central Europe. Since its foundation in 1885, it has been created on the principle of master studios, including six studios of the Department of Graphic Design, including the fields of graphic design, typography, motion design and photography.
TAČR
The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (SIGMA programme) is an organizational unit of the state that was founded in 2009 on the support of research, experimental development and innovation.
ENSAD, NANCY
Created in 1985 to “contribute to the development of typographic creation” – ANRT is a postgraduate research course of the École nationale supérieure d’art et de design (ENSAD) in Nancy. It is a place of excellence where a singular expertise in typographic and editorial design is developed.
International experts
Radek Sidun
Czech
Thomas Huot-Marchand
Romance languages
Dan Reynolds
English
Henrik Birkvig
Danish
Marija Juza
Croatian
Mart Anderson
Estonian
Boril Karaivanov
Bulgarian
Michal Tornyai
Slovak
Robert Oleś
Polish
Georgios Matthiopoulos
Greek
Péter Sher Serfőző
Hungarian
Indra Kupferschmid
German
Matthijs Sluiter
Dutch
Pierre Portelli
Maltese
Éric Nunes
French
Manuel Sesma Prieto
Spanish
Giovanni Cavalleri
Italian
Tânia Raposo
Portuguese
Örjan Nordling
Swedish
Markus Itkonen
Finnish
Klementina Možina
Slovenian
Cătălina Zlotea
Romanian
Alexey Murashko
Latvian
Tom Mrazauskas
Lithuanian
Naoise Ó Conchubhair
Irish
Arja Karhumaa
Finnish
- and others…
Founders & members of Typofix team
filip.blazek@umprum.czMgr. Filip Blažek
cofounder of the project
Filip Blažek (1974) is a graphic designer, typographer, teacher and writer. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Charles University in Prague. Since the mid-1990s, he has been focused on Czech typeface design and typography and has lectured on these topics at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague and at ARCHIP, as well as at numerous Czech and international conferences. He is actively involved in graphic design in the Designiq studio, which he founded in 2002. He is the author of the publications Practical Typography (2000, together with Pavel Kočička) and Typokniha (2020, 2022) and has contributed to numerous other publications and periodicals.
radek.sidun@umprum.czdoc. MgA. Radek Sidun
cofounder of the project
Radek Sidun (1980) devotes himself primarily to fonts and typography. His graduation thesis at the UMPRUM Academy dealt with the issue of diacritics in world languages. As a result, he is a sought-after consultant to font designers and type foundries worldwide. He’s served as a pedagogue at the Type Design and Typography studio of the UMPRUM Prague. He lectures on contemporary typography and its recent history at the same institution. He co-founded run the Briefcase Type Foundry since 2012. He has received several awards for his projects, such as a Gold Medal at the European Design Awards 2013 and, lately, the Certificate of Typographic Excellence 2014 by the Type Directors Club for BC News, which he designed and edited. He is a member of the editorial team of the award-winning book TYPO9010 (2015), co-author of the book Jaroslav Benda 1882-1970: Typographic Design and Typeface (2019) and author of the publication Manual of Diacritics: Case studies of newly designed accents for contemporary typefaces (2021). He regularly lectures at international and domestic design and typography festivals.
tereza.vetrovcova@umprum.czMgr. Tereza Větrovcová
project coordination & PR
Tereza Větrovcová (1992) is an art historian and theoretician of modern & contemporary art. She is mainly engaged in editorial work, copywriting and PR activities related to art, design and architecture. She also focuses on the creation of digital communication platforms for galleries and educational institutions.
- konrad.karlik@umprum.cz
Bc. Konrád Karlík
graphics and communication
Konrád Karlík (2002) is currently studying at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) in the studio of Type Design and Typography. He studied graphic design at the Secondary Technical School of Graphics in Prague. For his graduation thesis (Design of notography for linear sans serif typeface) he received the National Award for Student Design in 2022. He is interested in graphic design and typography.
odraska@slonline.skIng. Ľuboš Odráška
web programmer & IT - SLONline, s.r.o.
Ľuboš Odráška is the founder and managing director of SLONline, a Bratislava software studio that has built web platforms, apps and plugins for type foundries since 2010. Its clients include Typotheque, DSType Foundry, Briefcase Type Foundry and Fontstand. SLONline also develops ELEFONT, a platform that runs the font shops and licensing of several independent foundries. Since 2023 he has handled the technical side of Typofix: the web app, the Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word plugins, user accounts and the servers they run on.