Indra Kupferschmid – Serifenbetonte Linearantiqua mit klassizistischem Charakter [EN: Slab]. German views on type classification and sorting fonts
Tuesday, 25. 11. 2025 from 6pm
UMPRUM, nám. Jana Palacha 80, Praha 1, 2nd floor, room No. 215
free entry, the lecture will be in English, hosted by Filip Blažek and Radek Sidun
At UMPRUM, Professor Indra Kupferschmid from the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar will speak as part of the TYPOFIX project.
For a long time, the German typographic environment was shaped by the dominance of blackletter, while the different typographic traditions of neighboring countries created a contrast that gave rise to a uniquely diverse and culturally tense typographic landscape. Professor Indra Kupferschmid will offer insight—through the lens of German type design—into type classification, categorization, and various approaches to thinking about type.
Indra Kupferschmid is a professor of typography at HBKsaar, University of Arts Saarbrücken, Germany. She has been teaching type, typography and communication design at various design schools in Germany and abroad since 1999. As a freelance designer, writer, and consultant, she has worked for various publishers, publications, magazines, type designers and foundries, as well as companies of all sizes. Research fields are the younger history of type technology, sans-serif typefaces, type classification and choosing fonts, as well as legibility and type measurements, among others for the German Institute for Standardisation, DIN.
This public lecture in English will take place within the European Typographic Proofreader project. This project is co-financed with the state support of the Czech Technology Agency within the SIGMA Programme.
You can follow the Typofix project of Filip Blažek and Radek on Instagram.