Irene Vlachou

Irene Vlachou is a type designer based in Athens who holds an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK. She has collaborated with international type foundries and corporations, working as a type designer and a consultant for Greek typefaces. From 2013–19, she was a senior designer and variable font expert at TypeTogether, and currently works as a full-time freelance type designer specialising in OEM system fonts. On behalf of the Greek Open Source Community (GFOSS), Irene is a mentor on the expansion of Greek libre fonts for the Google Summer of Code (GSOC) programme. During Spring semester 2022, she worked as both an artist-in-residence at La Becque and as a visiting professor at the Master Type Design programme at ECAL, Lausanne. Since January 2023 she has participated in the ILoveTypography Academy with her online class “Intro to Greek Type Design”.

Irene’s work includes: Colvert Greek (2012, typographies.fr), Alverata Greek (2013, Gerard Unger/TypeTogether), Parmigiano Greek (2014, Typotheque), SamsungOne Greek (2016, Brody Associates), LL Bradford Greek, the identity for Documenta14 (2016, Laurenz Brunner), LL Unica77 Greek (2017, Lineto), Stratos Greek (2018, Production Type), FauxFoundry and FauxGreek parametric font (2019), SauberScript Greek (2020, Typejockeys), Amstelvar (2020, FontBureau), redesign of Roboto, Roboto Flex, and Noto Greek fonts (2021, Google Fonts), Atlas Font Family (2021, Commercial Type), HBO Street Greek (2021, Carvalho Bernau and Letterror).