Typofix – European Typographic Proofreader

We are looking for a partner who can integrate AI into the project so that we can apply typographic rules based on context.

The Typofix project addresses an often overlooked layer of language: typographic conventions such as punctuation, spacing, quotation systems, numerical formats, and other language-specific rules that shape how text is written and understood across European languages.

In the context of ongoing digital transformation, these conventions are increasingly subject to standardisation pressure imposed by global software environments, leading to their simplification or gradual disappearance. This process contributes to the digital marginalisation of smaller languages and creates a risk of loss of culturally embedded typographic practices.

Typofix builds on an already existing and practically tested system developed at UMPRUM within a national research project funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TAČR). In its current form, the project has demonstrated its functionality and relevance in real editorial and design workflows. At the same time, it has revealed clear limitations — particularly in terms of scalability, integration across different software platforms, and the ability to process language context beyond rule-based approaches.

Since Typofix was originally developed before the current wave of widely accessible AI technologies, new opportunities have emerged. These developments now make it possible to extend the system with context-aware capabilities and to significantly improve its adaptability, scalability, and performance across languages.

Typofix responds to this situation by building and continuously developing a structured, multilingual database of typographic rules in collaboration with native experts. The database is not a closed system, but an evolving framework in which languages are progressively added, refined, and updated in response to real usage. The project aims to expand its linguistic coverage to additional European languages, including under-resourced and minority languages.

The project goes beyond documentation by transforming this knowledge into an active tool applicable in everyday editorial and publishing workflows. Typofix reflects contemporary language use and does not enforce outdated or purely normative standards, but instead works with the living and evolving form of language.