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.
Words of Type also has a multilingual encyclopedia for typography, right here.
Or continue here to discover our nice upcoming events!
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 have 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.