List of institutions offering type design education

The following is a list of institutions offering type design education.

Type design (also: typeface design, pop. font design), the art of creating typefaces, is taught at art and design colleges around the world. A small number of institutions offer a degree in type design; many others offer type design courses as part of their BA or MA curriculum in Graphic Design or Visual Communication. When no full type design course is offered, schools may invite professional type designers to give workshops; these one-off events are not listed in the overview below.

Argentina
Universidad de Buenos Aires

FADU/UBA, Secretaría de Posgrado

MT-UBA, Maestría en Tipografía

Degree:

Brazil
Centro Universitário Senac, São Paulo

Pós-graduação Senac-SP

Curso de Pós-graduação em Tipografia

Degree: Lato sensu postgraduate

France
École Estienne, Paris

Atelier de Création Typographique

DSAA Design Typographique

Degree: Master 1

École supérieure d’art et de design, Amiens

EsadType

Post-diplôme Ésad Amiens

Degree: Post-master course

Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, Nancy

ANRT

Degree: Post-master course

Germany
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

Class Type-Design

Degree: Diplom Type-Design (MFA equivalent)

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Associate Professorship for Typography and Type Design

Degree: Visual Communication (B.A.), Visual Communication (M.A.)

Technische Hochschule Augsburg

Professorship for Type

Degree: Communication Design (B.A.), Identity Design (M.A.)

Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main

Professorship for Typografie/Type Design

Degree: Fine Arts (B.A.), Fine Arts (M.A.)

Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg

Professorship for Type Design

Degree: Communication Design (B.A.), Communication Design (M.A.)

Mexico
Centro de Estudios Gestalt, Veracruz

Maestría en Diseño Tipográfico

The Netherlands
Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK), The Hague

(Royal Academy of Art (The Hague))

Master of Design Type and Media

Head of Program: Erik van Blokland

Degree: MA

Spain
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Laura Meseguer, Co-director

Degree: Diploma in Typographic Creation

University School of Design and Art of Barcelona (EINA)

https://www.eina.cat/es/masters-y-postgrados/creacion-tipografica

Degree: Diploma in Typographic Creation

Switzerland
École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL)

(University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)

MA Art Direction: Type Design

Degree: MA Art Direction

Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, (University of the Arts) ZHdK, Zürich

CAS Schriftgestaltung (Certificate of Advanced Studies in Type Design)

MAS Type Design and Typography (Master of Advanced Studies in Type Design and Typography)

Degree: Certificate

United Kingdom
University of Reading

Department of Typography & Graphic Communication

MA in Typeface Design

Degree: MA Typeface Design

Degree: PhD Typography

Anglia Ruskin University

Degree: PHD Graphic Design & Typography

United States
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York City

Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design (Type@Cooper)

Degree: Certificate

Letterform Archive, San Francisco

Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design (Type West)

Degree: Certificate

School of Visual Arts, New York City

SVA Type Lab A 4-week immersive program in Typeface Design

Degree: CE Summer Residency

Australia
University of Technology Sydney

School of Design, Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building

Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication

Belgium
Plantin Instituut voor Typografie, Antwerp

Expert Class Type Design

Degree: Certificate

PXL-MAD, Hasselt

Reading Type & Typography

Degree: Bachelor and Master

ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels

Atelier de Typographie & Design Graphique

Degree: Bachelor and Master

Brazil
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Bacharelado em Design (Undergraduate)

Centro Universitário Senac

Bacharelado em Design / Habilitação em Comunicação Visual (Undergraduate)

Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo

Curso de Design (Undergraduate)

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)

Bacharelado em Desenho Industrial / Habilitação em Programação Visual (Undergraduate)

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSm)

Bacharelado em Desenho Industrial / Habilitação em Programação Visual (Undergraduate)

Universidade Estadual Paulista 'Julio de Mesquita Filho' (UNesp, Bauru)

Bacharelado em Design com habilitação em Design Gráfico (Undergraduate)

Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM)

Bacharelado em Design com habilitação em Comunicação Visual e ênfase em Marketing (Undergraduate)

Canada
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver

Studio courses in typography

Studio course in Type Design

George Brown College SCHOOLOFDESIGN, Toronto

Studio course: Experimental Typography

University of Guelph Humber, Toronto

Course in Type Design

Instructor: Patrick Griffin

OCAD University, Toronto

Course in The Art of Type

York University, Toronto

Course in Typeface Design

Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal

École de design

Course in Type design

Instructors: Alessandro Colizzi, Étienne Aubert-Bonn

Colombia
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá

Studio course in Type Design

Czech Republic
'''UMPRUM (AKA VŠUP or AAAD), Prague ''' (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design)

Studio of Type Design and Typography

VUT: FaVU, Brno

(Faculty of Fine Arts at the Brno University of Technology)

Denmark
Danish School of Media, Copenhagen

The Danish Design School, Copenhagen

Finland
Aalto University School of Art and Design

Department of Media

KyAMK, Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences

France
École supérieure d’art et de design (ESAD), Amiens

Post-diplôme « Typographie & language »

diplome.esad-amiens.fr Post-diplôme Ésad Amiens

ESAC, Pau

Atelier de typographie

Germany
HAW Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg

BA / MA Kommunikationsdesign mit Schwerpunkt Type Design

Designschule München

(Berufsfachschule für Kommunikationsdesign)

Fachhochschule Augsburg

(University of Applied Science)

Fachbereich Gestaltung, Studiengang Kommunikationsdesign

Berliner technische Kunsthochschule BTK

(University of Applied Science)

Fachbereich Design, studiengangsübergreifend

Fachhochschule Potsdam

(University of Applied Science)

Fachbereich Design, Modul Kommunikationsdesign

Hochschule Darmstadt

(University of Applied Science)

Fachbereich Gestaltung, Studiengang Kommunikationsdesign

Hochschule Niederrhein

(University of Applied Science)

Fachbereich Design, Faculty of Design

Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar

(Academy of Fine Arts Saar)

Studiengang Kommunikationsdesign (BFA, Diplom, MFA)

Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin

(Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee)

Studiengang Visuelle Kommunikation (BFA, Master)

Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel

(Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design)

Department of Design, Communication Design, Typography, Typeface Design BA and MA courses

Fachbereich Design, Studiengang Kommunikationsdesign, Typografie, Schriftgestaltung BA and MA courses

Ireland
National College of Art & Design, Dublin

BA(Hons) Graphic Design

Italy
Isia Urbino, Urbino

Typographic techniques

Type design

Politecnico di Milano, Milano

Type Design (Communication Design BA)

México
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla

Specialization course in Typeface Design

Poland
Akademia Sztuk Pięknych, Poznań

Poznaniu Pracownia Znaku i Typografii

Sign and Typography Studio

Akademicki Kurs Typografii, Warszawa

Akademicki Kurs Typografii

Portugal
Communication and Art Department, University of Aveiro

Course Syllabus

Typography Course blog

Escola Superior de Arte e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

Graphic Design Course Type Design studies

Escola Superior de Arte e Design de Matosinhos

Communication Design Course Type Design studies

Fine Art Faculty of the University of Porto

Course Syllabus

Type Design course website (course description, blog, projects, results,…)

Russia
British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow

Course of Type & Typography

Moscow State University of Printing Arts

Type Design Workshop

Spain
Tipo.g Escuela de Tipografía de Barcelona

Tipo.g Escuela de Tipografía de Barcelona

Sweden
Södertörn University, Stockholm

Typsnittsdesign och typografi

Typsnittsdesign och fontutveckling

United States
California Institute of the Arts

Program in Graphic Design

Maine College of Art

Undergraduate program in Graphic Design (BFA)

Massachusetts College of Art & Design

Graphic Design undergraduate program (BFA)

Parsons School of Design, New York

Undergraduate Type Design

Portland State University

Intro Level Type Design Course

Pratt Institute

School of Art and Design

Rhode Island School of Design

1 Undergraduate and Masters Introduction to Type Design course

Savannah College of Art and Design

1 type face design undergraduate, 3 graduate level typeface design classes and 1 typeface marketing



School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston

Digital Type Founding: a fifteen-week course in type design

Instructor: Charles Gibbons

School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York

Continuing Education course in Type Design

University of Washington School of Art, Art History, & Design

The Visual Communication Design Program

Yale School of Art

Letterform/Type Design (showcase of previous work)

California College of the Arts

One class on typeface design, offered as an investigative studio in junior year 

Type West at Letterform Archive

A year-long postgraduate certificate in typeface design grounded in the Letterform Archive collection of over 50,000 specimens from type and design history

California State University, Los Angeles

Typeface Design