TypeCon 2026

Daily Schedule

Conference and events take place at Revolution Hall unless otherwise noted.

Detailed schedules and speaker bios coming soon!

Scroll down for the schedule at a glance.

REGISTRATION & VOLUMES MARKET HOURS

Thursday
Registration opens: 10:00a
Registration closes: 6:00p

Friday
Registration & Volumes Market open: 11:00a
Registration & Volumes Market close: 6:00p

Saturday
Registration & Volumes Market open: 11:00a
Registration closes: 2:00p
Volumes Market closes: 6:00p


WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 05

Pre-conference
Meet & Greet

TIme TBD: TDC Show at Volumes


THURSDAY, AUGUST 06

Type & Design Education Forum

11:00a: Opening remarks: Sharon Oiga & Guy Villa Jr

PART A: PROCESS AND EXPERIMENTATION

11:05a–11:25a: Curious Typography by Dan Elliott

11:25a–11:35a: Spatial & Dimensional Typography by Sharon Oiga

11:35a–11:55a: Typography with Time: Innovative Education for First-Year Students Fostering Critical Thinking by Albert Choi

11:55a–12:10p: Q+A panel

12:10p–12:25p: Break

PART B: SYSTEMS AND METHODOLOGY

12:25p–12:45p: Teaching Design as an Attitude: Filling the Gap In Graphic Design Curriculum by Sajad Amini

12:45p–12:55p: No. 268: Typographic Systems as Institutional Strategy by Jan Ballard

12:55p–1:15p: Beyond Safe Pairings: Teaching Font Pairing Through Randomized Constraint by Thomas Jockin

1:15p–1:25p: Designing with Rules: Teaching Computational Thinking Through Type, Systems, and Code by Cat Normoyle

1:25p–1:40p: Q+A panel

1:40p–3:00p: Long break

PART C: COMMUNITY, CULTURE, AND PLACE

3:00p–3:10p: On Tap: Embracing Community Along the Columbia Tap Trail by Jose Romero

3:10p–3:20p: International Students, International Scripts by Camila Yepes

3:20p–3:30p: Facilitating Diversity: The Designer’s Role in Supporting Cultural Representation by Kristine Lauron

3:30p–3:50p: Experience is the Teacher: Innovative Collaboration by Thi Nguyen

3:50p–4:05p: Q+A panel

4:05p–4:20p: Break

PART D: ERA AND CONTEXT

4:20p–4:30p: Unusual Specimens: Conceptual Explorations in Type Personality by Jenny Kowalski

4:30p–4:40p: Type Through the Modern Decades by Ashley Pigford

4:40p–5:00p: Building Typographic Literacy in a First Graphic Design Course by Nancy Bernardo

5:00p–5:20p: Beyond Letterforms: Typographic Design as Narrative by Stephanie Simkin

5:20p–5:35p: Q+A panel

5:35p–5:40p: Closing remarks: Sharon Oiga & Guy Villa Jr

5:45p–6:15p: Education Forum Closing Reception (Ed Forum attendees only)

6:00p–9:00p: FutureFonts and Friends

FRIDAY, AUGUST 07

Main Program,
Day 1

11:00a–6:30p: Registration open

11:45a–12:00p: Opening Remarks / State of the Union: TBA

12:00p–12:45p: Keynote: Anne H. Berry, Meaghan Dee, Rebecca Tegtmeyer

12:45p–12:50p: Q+A

12:50p–1:20p: Coffee break & book signing

PRESENTATIONS

1:20p–1:40p: Rethinking a Geometric Icon for a Global Stage by Jose Scaglione

1:40p–2:00p: The many faces of Chinuk Wawa: exploring the meandering typographic journey of the Pacific Northwest's lingua franca by Brandon Buerkle

2:00p–2:20p: PARA: A Stop for Jeepney Typography, A Start for Cultural Preservation by Godwin Putong and JP Oquias

2:20p–2:40p: Cutting Half the Characters, Doubling the Impact: A Modular Open-Source Character Set for Traditional Chinese Type Design by Hao-Mei Wang (王 皓梅)

2:40p–2:50p: Q+A

2:50p–3:10p: Coffee break

3:10p–3:30p: Old Roots, New Energy by Nina Stössinger

3:30p–3:50p: To Design Is To Fantasize: The Illusion of Typographic Neutrality by Raven Mo

3:50p–4:10p: The Vernacular Type Project—documenting distinct global cultures through hand-lettered public signage by Elisabeth Kvernen

4:10p–4:30p: Typographic Thresholds: Addressing Climate Urgency by Megan Irwin

4:30p–4:40p: Q+A

4:40p–5:00p: Coffee break

5:00p–5:20p: Written Once, Copied Everywhere: Taiwan's Brush Script on the World's Streets by Wei-Hsiang Su

5:20p–5:40p: Psyched: A Typographic History of Psychic Signage and Advertisements by Maulika K Hegde

5:40p–6:00p: Sheriffing the Serif by Sherry He

6:00p–6:10p: Closing remarks

6:00p: Volumes Market closes

7:30p–9:30p: SOTA Spacebar (Conference badge required)


SATURDAY, AUGUST 08

Main Program,
Day 2


11:00a–2:00p: Registration open

11:00a–6:00p: Volumes Market open

11:50a–12:00p: Opening remarks

PRESENTATIONS

12:00p–12:20p: Create typefaces today? by Jean François Porchez

12:20p–12:40p: Ode to Crosley: A Typographic Tribute to a Brutalist Monster by Juju Stojanovic

12:40p–1:00p: Letters Under Constraint: The Visual Language of Soviet Lettering by Aleksandra Ivanova

1:00p–1:20p: Challenging Patterns of Supremacy by Dave Pabellon

1:20p–1:40p: From the Screen to the Pavement: Designing Stencils for Subversive Communication by Jacob DeGeal

1:40p–1:50p: Q+A

1:50p–2:10p: Coffee break

2:10p–2:30p: Finishing My First Typeface 50 Years Later by Mark Simonson

2:30p–2:50p: ADA Code Signage & How I Know Typographers Had Nothing To Do With It by Jenn Contois

2:50p–3:10p: Collective Orchestration: Publishing as Typographic Laboratory by Feixue Mei

3:10p–3:30p: The Shape of Meaning: A Typographic View of Icons by Thalia Echevarria Fiol

3:30p–3:50p: Built, Not Born: What It Takes to Grow a Type Design Ecosystem by Chen-Yin Chiang

3:50p–4:00p: Q+A

4:00p–4:20p: Coffee break

4:20p–4:40p: Variable Fonts: Where the Heck Are We? by Doug Wilson

4:40p–5:00p: Coding and Kerning: Teaching Typography in Virtual Reality by Grace Spee

5:00p–5:20p: Tall Fonts Without Serifs: Teaching Search to Speak Typography by Pranay Kumar and Praveen Kumar Dhanuka

5:20p–5:40p: The Last Human Layer by Wenting Zhang and Hua Shu

5:40p–5:50p: Closing Remarks / Special Acknowledgments

6:00p: Volumes Market closes

7:00p–10:00p: TypeCon Farewell (Conference badge required)