Words of Type

About

Words of Type is a platform to expand and practice your knowledge in typography.

This is the website where you’ll find a series of lectures and workshops about diverse content. They are great opportunities to learn and practice, get live feedback, and discuss with experts from around the world.

We made a survey for those who have already attended one or more of our events. Please take a few minutes (10-12 min!) to help us!

Words of Type also has a multilingual encyclopedia for typography.

Go to WoT encyclopedia

Our goal(s)

We are aiming for a place that reflects and cultivates our international typographic world to, eventually, bring people closer together.

COMING SOON:
A new version of this website is in progress, with more nice things. Stay tuned!

WoT for KBI program

Since 2025, Words of Type has partnered with Stanford University’s SILICON program and Letterform Archive in San Francisco, USA, to develop the Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator (KBI for short) to offer introductory knowledge to people with an interest in type design on digitally underserved writing systems or with the aim to decolonize Latin type design. More information will be shared soon!

Family, illustration by Jay Cover.

Alphabet, illustration by James Graham.

Contrast, illustration by Erik van Blokland.

Hanzi, illustration by Tezzo Suzuki.

Emphasis, illustration by Malota.

Binding, illustration by Yann Bastard.

Legibility, illustration by Catherine Potvin.

Template, illustration by Raven Mo.

Sans Serif, illustration by Pauline Fourest.

Substitution, illustration by Chloe Kendall.

Calligraphy, illustration by Jonny Wan.

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Our goal(s)

WoT for KBI program

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Events

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WoT for KBI program

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Events

APR 11, 2026LectureOnlineBooking openHangeul script history & typographyWith Min-Young Kim

APR 18 + 25, 2026WorkshopOnlineBooking openHangeul Type Design with non-square styleWith Mingoo Yoon

MAY 2, 2026LectureOnlineBooking openJapanese Writing System: History & Type DesignWith Ikumi Honda, Yui Yoshitomi

MAY 9, 16 + 23, 2026WorkshopOnlineBooking openIntroduction to Japanese Type DesignWith Ikumi Honda, Yui Yoshitomi

MAR 7 & 14, 2026WorkshopOnlinePastArabic LetteringWith Samar Zureik

JAN 31, 2026LectureOnlinePastCinema & StereoTypeWith Aaron Levin

JAN 23, 2026LectureOnlinePastSchriften, Lettering, Écritures: 174 slides about Walter KächWith Fabian Harb

OCT. 25, 2025LectureOnlinePastMoving type beyond expressionWith Maurice Meilleur

OCT 11 + 18, 2025WorkshopOnlinePastIntroduction to CyrillicWith Maria Doreuli, Krista Radoeva

SEPT. 19, 2025LectureOnlinePastType Makes Words and Words Make TypeWith Lara Captan

SEPT. 5, 2025conversationOnlinePastWoT Conversation Ep. 5With Sofie Beier, Ann Bessemans, Gerry Leonidas, Min-Young Kim, Éloïsa Perez, Ferdinand Ulrich

JULY 7 + 14, 2025WorkshopOnlinePastType Design 101: Designing from a Thai perspectiveWith Mint Tantisuwanna

JULY 7 + 14, 2025WorkshopOnlinePastDesigning for Arabic: Between tradition & modernityWith Abeera Kamran

JULY 3, 2025LectureOnlinePastArabic Script: Then & NowWith Kamal Mansour

JUN. 23 – JUL. 24, 2025WorkshopOnlinePastKnuth–Bigelow Incubator - Full program (South East Asia)With Multiple

JUN. 23 – JUL. 24, 2025WorkshopOnlinePastKnuth–Bigelow Incubator - Full program (Arabic)With Multiple

JULY 3, 2025LectureOnlinePastImpacts of preserving endangered writing systemsWith Jo De Baerdemaeker

JUNE 21, 2025LectureOnlinePastCyrillic script and typographyWith Maria Doreuli, Krista Radoeva

JUN. 5, 2025conversationOnlinePastWoT Conversation Ep.4With Garine Gokceyan, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Liang Hai, Toshi Omagari, Morgane Pierson

MAY 16, 2025LectureOnlinePastLegibility research from a non-Latin perspectiveWith Héctor Mangas Afonso

APR. 12 + 19, 2025WorkshopOnlinePastIntroduction to Font Production (Workshop)With Rosalie Wagner

APR. 6 + 13, 2025WorkshopOnlinePastType Design fundamentals with Greek script [x2 Sundays]With Irene Vlachou

APR. 5, 2025LectureOnlinePastIntroduction to Font Production (Lecture)With Rosalie Wagner

MAR. 23, 2025LectureOnlinePastAbout Greek script and typographyWith Irene Vlachou

MARCH 21, 2025LectureOnlinePastIndigenous Language Support, A Design ProcessWith Kevin King

MAR. 7, 2025conversationOnlinePastWoT Conversation Ep.3With Marie Boulanger, Veronika Burian, Min-Young Kim, Amy Papaleas, Alice Savoie

Dec.6, 2024conversationOnlinePastWoT Conversation Ep.2With Cara Di Edwardo, Indra Kupferschmid, Jean-Baptiste Levée, Li Zhiqian, Gen Ramirez

NOV. 24, 2024LectureOnlinePastHebrew Type and TypographyWith Shani Avni

Oct. 12 + 19, 2024WorkshopOnlinePastLettering match-making from Latin to HangeulWith Mingoo Yoon

OCT. 5, 2024LectureOnlinePastIntroduction to Hangeul history and designWith Min-Young Kim

SEPT. 7, 2024conversationOnlinePastWoT Conversation Ep. 1With David Berlow, Eric Q. Liu, Tânia Raposo, Nick Sherman, Mariko Takagi

July 13, 2024WorkshopOnlinePastDevanagari Lettering; match-making from Latin to DevanagariWith Namrata Goyal

JULY 6, 2024LectureOnlinePastIntroduction to DevanagariWith Namrata Goyal

JUNE 29 + JULY 6, 2024WorkshopOnlinePastLettering match-making from Latin to Chinese HanziWith Lisa Huang

JUNE 22, 2024LectureOnlinePastChinese Hanzi, the script and its typographyWith Lisa Huang

June 8 + 15WorkshopOnlinePastLettering match-making from Latin to ThaiWith Boom Promphan Suksumek

June 1LectureOnlinePastThai script typography, an introductionWith Boom Promphan Suksumek