Alice Savoie is a graduate from École Duperré and École Estienne in Paris, and holds an MA in Typeface Design and a PhD in type history from the University of Reading (UK). Between 2008 and 2010 she joined Monotype as an in-house type designer, working on custom projects for international clients. She is currently based in Lyon, France, and teaches type design at Écal Lausanne (CH) as well as supervising research projects at Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy (FR). From 2018—2021 she was the principal researcher on the Leverhulme-funded ‘Women in Type’ project at the University of Reading with Prof. Fiona Ross.