My former work colleague Michael Twyman, who has died aged 91, was a pioneer of the study of typography as a university discipline in Britain, and was founder of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at Reading University in the mid-1970s.
His vision for teaching the subject of typography combined history, theory and practice in graphics, typefaces, books and information design. It was innovative in drawing on linguistics, psychology, social and economic history and the humanities to address “design for reading”.
