I started writing a history of ATypI in 2018, with backing from the association’s Board of Directors. I researched and wrote an initial chapter, explaining how and why the association was created, and I gave a talk about the project at the 2019 ATypI conference in Tokyo.
But ATypI, like so many other organizations, got clobbered by the pandemic, and the project got derailed. Now that it’s back on track, I will be publishing draft chapters here as I complete them.
John D. Berry
ATypI President 2007–2013[Images of ATypI founder Charles Peignot and a typed report on the proposal for the organization.]
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The early years
The Association Typographique Internationale was founded in 1957 through the vision and energy of Charles Peignot, president and general director of the Deberny et Peignot type foundry in Paris. Read more →
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ATypI in the 1960s
In the 1960s, the Association continued its efforts to achieve international protection for the designs of typefaces. Read more →
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Type90: Oxford, 1990
Type90 was by far the largest ATypI event up to that time; indeed, it could properly be called a conference rather than a congress. Inspired by and organized by chairman Roger Black, with the heroic organizational abilities of conference manager Carol Wahler, it took place over several days in the heart of Oxford. Read more →
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Typ09: Mexico City 2009
The Board had been considering future venues for the conference, and one of the countries considered was Mexico. It would be a very different direction for ATypI: our first conference in Latin America. Read more →