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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 (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 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.

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.

SLONline is a software company focused on web projects and mobile applications.
During 10 years of our existence, they have created many interesting projects for typography companies, successful e-commerce solutions, and iOS applications that optimize the work processes of many people every day. In the field of graphic design, SLONline work for the well-known typefoundries Briefcase Type Foundry, Suitcase Type Foundry and Typotheque, and they are also behind the programming of the Fontstand font application and many more.