Frederik Berlaen is a type designer with a love for programming and scripting. After studying graphic design at Sint-lucas in Ghent, where he got the passion for pure black & white type, he went to study type design at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague.

He successfully got a Master Degree at the postgraduate course Type & Media in 2006. His final project was not a typefamily but an application which studies the broadnib and pointed pen, called Kalliculator.

Frederik Berlaen works under the name of TypeMyType providing font services, programming and development of applications as RoboFont, DrawBot, UFOstretch and more. He teaches type design and scripting at Luca School of Arts Ghent, at ECAL in Lausanne from 2009 to 2015 and at Typography & Language post-graduate course in ESAD Amiens since 2016.

Website: typemytype.com