Day 01 · Thu 13 Nov
Letters learn to walk
- 10:00Opening: the alphabet warms up
- 14:00Workshop: your first bouncing baseline
- 20:00Screening: a century of moving titles
TYPE
a festival of kinetic typographyGhent, BE13 to 15 Nov 2026
MOTION
Letters are bodies. They lean, they sprint, they slouch. For three days in November, we make them dance.
Program · three days, three postures
Day 02 · Fri 14 Nov
Speed reading, literally
- 10:00Panel: does italic mean hurry
- 15:00Live redesign: a timetable that dances
- 21:00Type karaoke (bring your own glyphs)
Day 03 · Sat 15 Nov
The resting weight
- 11:00Keynote: kinetics without motion sickness
- 16:00Debate: should logos sit still
- 22:00Closing: 10,000 glyphs released outside
Speakers · hover a name, watch it change its mind
- Vera KinetikLetters that flinch
- Bram LigatureThe comma is a hinge
- Ines KernKerning at 120 km/h
- Otto GroteskConfessions of a sans
- Paloma PunktSlow type for fast times
- Jun AxisEight axes of freedom
Three days of moving letters.
One ticket, every talk, both karaoke nights. Students pay what a decent font costs; everyone else pays what a good one does.
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