Typography Conferences and Meetups to attend all year round.

Bits

BITS (Brand Identity and Typography Symposium) is the only typography and type design symposium in Southeast Asia. This 11th edition aims to strengthen ties between Southeast Asia and the global design community, enhance industry relations and promote international dialogue under the theme "Designing with Letters".
📆 Februari 13 to 16, 2025
📍 Bangkok, Thailand

TypoDay

TypoDay is an international conference organized by the IDC School of Design (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) with support from the India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya. The conference is dedicated to issues facing letter designers, letter users, and letter educators. The conference includes presentations by invited keynote speakers, eminent academicians, industry professionals, researchers, and students.
📆 March 6 to 8, 2025
📍 Bombay, India

Fontstand Conference

Fontstand’s fifth annual typography conference returns to The Hague! Join type designers and typographers from around the world for a packed two-day program of presentations and discussions.
The first day of the event starts with a series of practical workshops focusing on type design, scripting, and type usage, and concludes with a main conference keynote.
The second day offers a rich program of talks and presentations on various aspects of typography in print, motion design and branding, and ends with a conference dinner for all participants, where you can meet and interact with colleagues and presenters.
📆 March 14 and 15, 2025
📍 The Hague, NL
🎟️ From €260

ATypl Copenhagen 2025

ATypI returns to Copenhagen in 2025, after 24 years! Get ready for a typographic experience rooted in Danish style, innovation, culture, and happiness. The ATypI 2025 conference venue is the Royal Danish Academy located by the harbor and the famous Refshaleøen.
📆 April 22 to 26, 2025
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

Now25

Now25, the second annual conference organised by TypeParis. The conference brings together typography enthusiasts, graphic designers, art directors and type designers. To explore how typography has a visible impact on the world around us. Listen to a mix of inspiring speakers such as Marta Cerdà Alimbau, Paul Shaw, Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer, Raissa Pardini, Shaun Loftman and many more...
📆 May 31, 2024
📍 Paris, France
🎟️ From €125

TypeCon

TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organisation dedicated to the promotion, study and support of typography and related arts. Since its inaugural conference in 1998, TypeCon has explored type for the screen, the history of printing, Dutch design, type in motion, Arabic calligraphy, the American Arts and Crafts movement, experimental typography, web fonts, and much more. Special events in the past have included the Type & Design Education Forum, walking type tours, and exhibitions of international type and design.
📆 August 7 to 9, 2025
📍 Portland, USA
🎟️ From $395

Typographics

11th Annual edition of Typographics, a design festival for people who use type. The central conference portion of the festival will take place Friday & Saturday, June 27 & 28, 2025, with workshops, tours, TypeLab, book fair, and more scheduled around it.
📆 June 23 to July 2, 2025
📍 The Cooper Union, New York City

letterspace.amsterdam

letterspace is an Amsterdam-based platform hosts since 2018 a monthly series of lectures about experimentation, innovation, and type research.
📍 Monthly meetups at various venues throughout the city. The lectures are open to the public and free.

The Typographic Circle

Typographic Circle is a non-profit organization run entirely by volunteers since 1976 to bring together anyone with an interest in typefaces and typography. The Typographic Circle organizes a variety of type and typography-related events, including a series of diverse monthly lectures featuring well-known industry speakers.
📍 Monthly meetups at the St Bride Foundation at Fleet Street in London.

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday is a monthly in-person meetup hosted by Eye Magazine exploring all facets of typography and graphic design.
📍 Monthly meetups at the St Bride Foundation at Fleet Street in London.

TypeThursday

TypeThursday is a global letter family that meets monthly to help each other improve their letter forms over drinks. With chapters in Moscow, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, and more TypeThursday is a true community.
📍 Monthly online meetups on a Thursday.

Letter Luvvers

Letter Luvvers is a bi-monthly meet-up of lovers of fonts & letters, and intends to be Bristol’s type forum bringing together professionals, students and enthusiasts to discuss everything type and lettering, whether it’s created in Bristol, about Bristol or enjoyed by Bristol. They share digital project, case studies, traditional printing and typography, our thriving hand-painted lettering scene, and all the other encounters with letters in the city.

TGM

The Typographische Gesellschaft München e.V. (tgm for short) is one of Europe's leading organisations in the creative sector. It sees itself as an interdisciplinary expert platform for the playing field between content and form, text and image, design and technology.
📍 Monthly meetups in Munchen.

TypeParis

TypeParis is an intensive type design program in Paris launched by the Typofonderie team in 2015. Learn how to design type from scratch and covers typeface design and calligraphy techniques, type history, and modern software practices.
During the summer program, TypeParis organizes a weekly lecture series, which are free, open to the public, and broadcast to the world.
‼️ Application deadline is 14 March 2025.
📆 3 June and ends 11 July 2025
📍 Paris, France
🎟️ €5830 tuition-fee

More typography news you find on typo.social, Alphabettes, and Eye Magazine.

Notable online typography course is Typearture's Variable Font Course, where you learn to create your own variable color font in eleven lessons.
Glyphs relates workshops you find on their website glyphsapp.com/events

I love to hear from you. Let me know what your favorite type conference is or if you have other events you want to add, get in touch via email, Mastrodon (typo.social) or on Twitter @neonmoire