ATypI invites proposals for talks, workshops, panels, and experimental presentations for its two 2026 conferences.
Stanford, California — Homescreen
Sharjah, UAE — Between
For 2026, ATypI not only returns to the Bay Area for the first time in over four decades, but also steps into the Middle East for the first time ever. Together, these two conferences form a unique dialogue: a reflection on typography’s deep histories and a reimagination of its shifting futures. We welcome submissions from across disciplines, cultures, scripts, and practices—whether historical, experimental, educational, technological, or deeply personal.
You may submit proposals for one or both conferences through the unified form below.
ATypI 2026 – Stanford
Theme: Homescreen: Design for Belonging
Dates: May 27–30, 2026
Location: Stanford University, California, USA
Homescreen
Design for Belonging
Homescreen, celebrates a historic homecoming for the global type community—to the San Francisco Bay Area, and to Stanford University, site of the landmark 1983 Working Seminar that redefined the future of digital typography. At the same time, Homescreen references the long and unfinished journey of creating a truly global and grounded digital age, an age marked at present by velocity and disorientation, possibility and uncertainty, where homescreens feel like “home” for only a remarkably small number of the world’slanguage communities. Four decades after the visionary Stanford event, Homescreen honors this legacy while confronting the unfinished work of designing a digital age where we all belong.
Sub-themes
Start Screen – Rethinking type education, research, outreach, and access.
Touch Screen – Exploring craft, gesture, and materiality in the digital type world.
Split Screen – Type across global scripts in a fragmented digital landscape.
Blank Screen – Who gets left out of the mainstream—and what we overlook.
Silver Screen – The shifting business of type design in an evolving media economy.
Green Screen – How type can contribute to a sustainable and ethical digital future.
Full Screen – Typography in the age of VR, AR, and ubiquitous computing.
ATypI 2026 – Sharjah
Theme: Between: Tradition | Transition | Transformation
Dates: October 28–31, 2026
Location: University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Between
Tradition Transition Transformation
The conference explores typography as it moves across scripts, disciplines, tools, cultures, and times. This theme invites inquiry into what typography becomes when it exists not within boundaries, but in the spaces that connect them. Set in Sharjah, a city rooted in deep tradition and contemporary experimentation, this conference will foreground the in-between: typography as a relational, translational, and transformative practice.
Sub-themes
Between Scripts – Multiscript, bilingual, and cross-cultural typography.
Between Voices – Type as identity, activism, and cultural expression.
Between Forms – Material, spatial, and experimental letterforms.
Between Disciplines – Typography across architecture, tech, and design.
Between Tools – Hands, AI, code, and post-digital type technologies.
Between Pedagogies – Global, inclusive, and cross-script type education.
Between Times – Typographic history, archives, and future imaginaries.
Submission Guidelines
We welcome proposals from students, educators, practitioners, researchers, and industry professionals working across all scripts and design communities.
- You may submit to Stanford, Sharjah, or both conferences
- All proposals will be reviewed by an international jury
- You may submit multiple proposals, but each must be submitted separately
Presentations can take the form of:
- Talks (20 minutes)
- Workshops (1–3 hours)
- Panels
- Exhibitions or experimental formats
Please note: ATypI is a nonprofit organization. Speakers are responsible for their own conference registration, travel, and accommodation expenses.
Deadline: August 27, 2025.