Giulio Galli

Giulio Galli (IT, 1996) is a typeface designer, researcher and teacher based in Brussels, Belgium. He is a PhD candidate within READSEARCH Research Lab at the University of Hasselt, studying parametric typeface design for legibility purposes and human vs computational interpretation of letterforms. Since 2018 he is also associate typeface designer at CAST Foundry (Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici), in Italy, where he releases custom and retail typefaces. He teaches typeface design and typography at PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt, Belgium. Other published and ongoing research focuses on aspects of the history of typography like Baroque types in Rome (Italian Baroque types at the Vatican Press 1588–1614, published in Journal of the Printing Historical Society, 2023), woodcut types by music publishers in the Lutheran reform, Art Deco and avant-garde lettering on album covers and music sheets covers in the early XX Century.