Typography Day was organized for the sixteenth time on 26th, 27th and 28th of October 2023, hosted by Department of Applied Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (BHU Varanasi) in collaboration with the IDC School of Design (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) with support from India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya.

The theme for the event was 'The Sacred and Typography'

The Conference focused on the following issues:

1. Experiments and Explorations in typography
2. Cross-cultural typography
3. Expressive typography
4. Typography design with multilingual scripts
5. Typography design in native (indigenous) Scripts
6. Typography design within local contexts
7. Research activities in typography
8. Use of Technologies in design of typefaces
9. Education in local language typography

 The conference focused on the following sub-themes:

• Typography in education
  Instructional Aid, Displays, Information Graphics
   
• Digital Typography
  Mobile devices, Tablets, Web Typography
   
• Environmental Typography
  Signage, Installations, Graffiti or Street Art, Architecture Art, Architecture
   
• Commercial Typography
  Advertisements, Packaging, Retail, Product graphics, Fashion
   
• Vernacular Typography
  Native Calligraphy, Culture and Typography, Indigenous scripts
   
• Visual Literacy with respect to Typography
  Visual Ergonomics, Cognitive studies, Human Machine Interface, Reading experiences
   
• Typography in Media
  Television, Movie titling, Movie posters, Subtitling, Typography in motion

Here you can find the selected final juried papers for the conference Typographyday 2023 with the theme of 'The Sacred and Typography'