IRENE VLACHOU TYPEFACE DESIGN
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I’m Irene Vlachou a type designer based in Syros and Athens, Greece.
I hold an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading and I have collaborated with international type foundries and corporations.
My work includes lectures and workshops on Greek typeface design and variable fonts, as well as creating technical manuals for the Greek script.
I specialise in OEM system fonts and currently work as full time freelancer type designer, consultant and instructor.
Since November 2025, I’m a PhD candidate in the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering at the University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece, with thesis’ title: Greek fonts on screens; Digital readability research.
From 2013–2019, she was a senior designer and variable font expert at TypeTogether.
On behalf of the Greek Open Source Community, she is a mentor on the expansion of Greek libre fonts for the Google Summer of Code program.
In 2019 she co-writted the experimental project FauxFoundry, a webfont service offering fallback fonts, creating instantly the missing Greek character set.
During the spring semester of 2022, she was an artist-in-residency at La Becque Résidence d’artistes, were she studied the methods of teaching the Greek handwriting and its relation to the typeface design of the script. She was also a visiting professor on the Master Type Design programme at ECAL, Lausanne.
In the same year, she also participated as an external examiner in TypeMedia, Master Type and Media course in KABK of the same year.
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Fonts + Projects
- Lyon (Commercial Type, 2023)
- Google Sans Flex (2020-, Google)
- Amstelvar, (2020-, Google+FontBureau)
- Noto (2019, Google Fonts)
- RobotoFlex (2020-, Google+FontBureau)
- Source (2017, Google Fonts)
- LL Unica77 (2017, Lineto)
- LL Bradford Greek (2016, for the identity of Documenta14, Laurenz Brunner)
- SamsungOne (2016, Brody Associates)
- Parmigiano (2014, Typotheque)
- Colvert (2012, Typographies)
Irene Vlachou Typeface Design 