Swash & Serif has been bringing people together to celebrate typography and lettering since 2014.

Through our annual group art exhibition, we've featured 300+ designers and artists and over 700 artworks from Toronto and beyond.

After a whole decade of type love, we're evolving into Swash & Serif Festival. We're bringing all our type events together under one roof: our lettering tournament League of Letters, our new Swash & Serif Conference, and our annual Swash & Serif Exhibition now happen throughout *serif season*. Get your letters ready!

We showcase type in all its forms: from serifs and sans-serifs, brush scripts to blackletter, in English, Vietnamese, Arabic, Thai, Italian, French, Urdu and beyond. We encourage designers and artists to push the boundaries of the designed word and bring new concepts into the world.

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2014 — 2026

Who's the better letterer under pressure? Watch designers compete for glory in our hand-lettering tournament, League of Letters.

Share your type and lettering work with hundreds. of people at our 10th annual curated gallery exhibition. Say cheers to a decade of type at opening night!

Hear from type pros, designers, and leaders at Swash & Serif Con. Join the discussion and hear about how creatives are evolving and experimenting with type.

Give us a hand with day to day logistics at our events, get free entry, and be part of making the magic happen.

Help us spread the word about great Canadian type. Join forces with us to engage type lovers and designers in memorable ways.

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Fonts in use: Instrument Serif by Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Jordan Egstad, Telegraf by Pangram Pangram.

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