TYPOGRAPHY THEORY PRACTICE 2025
A one-day conference at Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, on Saturday 25 October 2025 which explored how typographic theories and propositions can manifest in practice, can be used to explain practice, and become practice. Organised by Fraser Muggeridge, Professor of Design, Leeds Beckett University, this conference aimed to bring typographic theory and practice closely together across a range of contexts and applications.
Watch the presentations from Typography Theory Practice 2024 here.
Professor Fraser Muggeridge
Typography is ...
Ruth Blacksell
Experimental Publishing: Alternative Networked Cultures & New Archival Initiatives
Joost Grootens
P.73 – Deciphering the Page Number
Louise Paradis
Designing in Two Languages: Typography and Language Policy in Quebec
James Langdon
Words and images combined
Nahal Sheikh
Soft Scripts: Urdu Typography and the “new ideal” of Postcolonial femininity in 20th century Pakistani Advertising
Chloé Motard
Designing Tools for Accessibility
Julian Bittiner
Edward Wright and the materiality of language
Ane Thon Knutsen
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Women in Modernist Publishing
Rebecca Ross
Alphabetic Interventions
Hector Mangas
Inter-cultural measurements of font weight
Marta Guidotti
The pursuit of reading comfort: the interplay between language diversity and typesetting
David Cabianca
Criticism from Within: Searching for Meaning in Graphic Design
Matthew Chrislip
Types of translation and the translation of type
Elena Veguillas
Truman’s through practice
Matthias Kreutzer
Typography & Migration: Form, Language, and Ideology in Local Printing Cultures
Barrie Tullett
Of Progress and Loss
Roy Chan
Reviving “Hong Kong Type”: When archival Chinese movable type becomes contemporary practice
Filipe Campos
Maximising Minimalism: Redefining Pixel Typography in the Digital Era
Amrit Randhawa
Typecaste: Victorian Typography as Visual Identity in British Bhangra
Paul Finn
What is a diagram? Or diagrammatic and typographic ways-of-knowing
Holger Jacobs
Working with the Unknown: Thoughts on a Parasitic and Symbiotic Typographic Practice
Leeds School of Arts
Leeds Beckett University
City Campus
Leeds
United Kingdom
LS1 3HE
Enquires
Fraser Muggeridge, Professor of Design, Leeds Beckett University
f.muggeridge@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Website design loosely based on two iconic studies on typographic theory:
Twyman, Michael. ‘Typography without Words.’ Visible Language XV (1981):5–12
Burnhill, Peter. ‘Dimensional Relationships in the Composition of Text.’ Stafford, Stafford College of Art and Design, 1970
Typeface is Publico Text Mono by Commercial Type
Website development by An Endless Supply
