PhD student (b. 1983) at Leiden University and Hasselt University, who lives in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. In 2011, she finished the Expert Type Design Class with Frank Blokland at the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp, and created the typeface Matilda. Matilda was specially designed to help make kids make the transition from reading simple type forms to more complex ones. Her PhD is about the design of a font that can reduce the reading problems of children with low vision. She speaks regularly about legibility.

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Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ The Belgian type scene ⦿ Dutch type design ⦿ Readability & Legibility ⦿

Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html