Typography Conferences and Meetups to attend all year round.

Encontro de Tipografia

The Encontro de Tipografia (Typography Meeting) is an annual international event held in Portugal that brings together researchers, practitioners, educators, students, and industry partners in the field of typography and typeface design. It features keynote speeches, peer-reviewed presentations, workshops, and exhibitions aimed at disseminating research, fostering learning and critical thinking, and advancing ideas in typography.
📆 November 20 - 22, 2025
📍 Lisbon, Portugal

DiaTipo São Paulo

DiaTipo SP is an international typography event based in São Paulo and the largest in Latin America! DiaTipo SP brings together hundreds of typography and design enthusiasts and lovers every year for a large gathering filled with lectures, workshops, panels, roundtable discussions and other activities, promoting exchanges and inspiration. Speakers include Schessa Garbut, Giovanna Cianelli and Daniel Sabino.
📆 December 10 - 13, 2025
📍 São Paulo, Brasil

Type Drives Commerce

Type Drives Commerce is dedicated to the power of typography at the intersection of creativity and commerce.
It considers typography to be a value driver in terms of more than just financial bottom lines, exploring how it can elevate connection, culture and community. The event features keynotes, panel discussions and one-to-one chats, and is designed to engage a wide range of people from the typography industry. The event brings together individuals who rarely find themselves in the same room: designers who create typefaces and typographic systems, creative operations teams that manage assets and tools, and brand leaders who fund them. This rare, comprehensive view of the current typographic landscape fosters community and creative growth.
📆 March 13 2026
📍 Fordham University, New York City, USA
🎟️ Starting at $299. TDC members and students receive a discount.

ATypI 2026 Stanford

ATypI 2026 Stanford promises to be more than just a conference; it will be a convergence of history, technology and imagination. Offering the global type community a chance to reflect on the past and shape the next generation of typographic innovation, it will be an unmissable event. Founded in 1957, the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) unites type professionals worldwide amidst new phototypesetting technology, fostering collaboration and education while protecting typeface designs.
📆 May 27-30 2026
📍 Stanford, Palo Alto, USA
🎟️ Starting at $575. ATypl members and students receive a discount.

Now26

Now26, the third 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 Astrid Stavro,
Filipe Carvalho, Martine, Georg Seifert, Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer, David Quay, Tobias Frere-Jones, Hélène Marian, Özge Güven, Megan O’Connell and many more...
📆 May 30, 2026
📍 Paris, France
🎟️ From €140

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 6–8, 2026
📍 Portland, USA
🎟️ From $440

International Letterheads

The Amsterdam Signpainters organised a Letterhead meet 10 years ago. In 2026, they are organising it again. Join the Amsterdam Letterheads from 27 to 30 August 2026. Tickets go on sale on 1 April.
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
📆 August 28–30, 2026

ATypI 2026 Sharjah

The ATypI 2026 conference in Sharjah will be the first to take place in the Middle East, and will be held at the University of Sharjah. Sharjah, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is renowned for its thriving arts scene and is internationally renowned for its contributions to the heritage and future of Arabic calligraphy. The emirate boasts the world's most extensive collection of Arabic manuscripts. These are on display at the Sharjah Calligraphy Museum. The ATypI conference is expected to coincide with the Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial.
📆 October 28–31, 2026
📍 Sharjah, UAE
🎟️ Starting at $575. ATypl members and students receive a discount.

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 programme launched by the Typofonderie team in Paris in 2015. Learn how to design typefaces from scratch, covering topics such as calligraphy techniques, type history, and modern software practices. TypeParis is open to everyone, from absolute beginners to type design enthusiasts.
During the summer programme, TypeParis organises a weekly lecture series which is free, open to the public and broadcast to the world.
‼️ Application deadline is 14 March 2026.
📆 2 June and ends 10 July 2026
📍 Paris, France
🎟️ Tuition-fee: €5480. French and EU customer will have to pay the additional 20% French VAT.

You can find more typography news on typo.social, Alphabettes, and Eye Magazine.

A notable online typography course is Typearture's Variable Font Course, in which you learn to create your own variable colour font over the course of eleven lessons. You can find Glyphs' workshops on their website: glyphsapp.com/events

I would love to hear from you. Let me know what your favourite type conference is, or if you know of any other events that should be added. Get in touch via email, Mastrodon (typo.social) or on 𝕏 (Twitter) @neonmoire