Irene Vlachou
Designer
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolIrene Vlachou is a typeface designer and graphic design professional based in Greece with nine years of industry experience and advanced degrees in type and graphic design. She holds an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading and an MA in Graphic Design & Fine Arts from the University of Derby, built on a BA in Graphic Design from Vakalo School of Art & Design. Her work focuses on Greek typefaces and variable font technology, blending traditional letterform craft with contemporary digital typography. Irene brings a multidisciplinary perspective that spans fine arts, branding, and technical font development, making her adept at projects that require both aesthetic sensitivity and engineering precision. Although primarily focused on type design, she bridges design and tooling, often exploring how variable fonts can improve multilingual and responsive typography. Based in Greece, she combines deep academic grounding with practical design instincts to create type solutions tailored for modern interfaces and print.
9 years of coding experience
MA, Typeface Design, MA, Typeface Design at University of ReadingMA, Graphic Design & Fine Arts, MA, Graphic Design & Fine Arts at University of DerbyBA, Graphic design, BA, Graphic design at Vakalo School of Art & Design
Github Skills (21)
opentype10
fonts10
typeface10
latin10
webfonts10
ufo10
phonetics10
variable-fonts10
hebrew10
truetype10
typography10
opentype-fonts10
parametric10
google-fonts10
complement9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
irenevlachou/Polytonic-tutorial
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 25 pushes in 2 years 9 months
irenevlachou/variable-fonts-with-feature-variations
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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