ATypI news

Have you heard the news? We are presenting two exciting conferences next year. First up, we’re at Stanford University in California’s stunning San Francisco Bay Area, May 27–30. We move to the inspiring University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, October 28–31, 2026. The ATypI 2026 Call for Proposals is going to be extra important… Continue reading Call for Proposals coming soon

ATypI Welcomes New Leadership ATypI is pleased to announce that, during the June 30 Board meeting, Nada Abdallah (UAE) was unanimously elected as the new President of ATypI. At the same meeting Laurence Penney (UK) was elected as Vice President, again in a unanimous vote. Their election marks a confident and unified step forward for… Continue reading Nada Abdallah Elected President, Laurence Penney Vice President

ATypI 2026 Sharjah will take place 28–31 October 2026 at the University of the Arts Sharjah. ATypI 2026 Sharjah will mark the first ATypI conference in the Middle East. Sharjah, one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is known for its vibrant art sector, and is globally respected for both the… Continue reading ATypI 2026 Sharjah

We’re very pleased to announce that, after a gap of some years, the ATypI Delegates Report was published during ATypI 2025 Copenhagen. It covers the years 2021 to 2024 in a single document. Please download it from the Communities page. The current ATypI Delegates are:

Save the dates! We’re pleased to announce that the dates for ATypI 2026 Stanford are 27–30 May, 2026. Our host is Stanford University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, California. It will be the first ATypI conference in the USA since ATypI 1999 Boston, and it revisits the location of the 1983 ATypI Working Seminar,… Continue reading ATypI 2026 Stanford

It was a joy and an honor to welcome the global type community to Copenhagen for ATypI 2025. When ATypI first came to the city in 1973, Nicolete Gray offered a prescient observation about involuntary public reading – the typographic landscape of everyday life, from street signs to record sleeves. Her words echoed throughout this… Continue reading Thank You from Copenhagen: Reflecting on ATypI 2025

ATypI Copenhagen brought together the global type community for five unforgettable days of talks, workshops, and conversations in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. With over 100 sessions exploring AI in typography, global scripts, font tech, typography education, printing history, calligraphy, handwriting and much more, this year’s conference was a vibrant reflection of the evolving… Continue reading ATypI 2025 Copenhagen: A Celebration of Type, Technology, and Global Voices

In cooperation with the guardians of typographic legibility of the Royal Danish Academy, the delegates of the ATypI 2025 Copenhagen conference are requested to convene at approximately seven o’clock in the evening for some joyous merrymaking to close the 68th annual conference. To experience another Danish adventure, stroll 25 minutes from the Academy to join… Continue reading ATypI Copenhagen party people, head on over to the Reffen

You read that right! ATypI is broadening its horizons once more. Our board of directors confirmed that we’re going to two amazing locations for our conferences next year. We’re headed to that incredible “West Coast Ivy,” Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California, United States, for our next conference in Spring 2026. Spring is a serious… Continue reading ATypI brings double the fun next year; Stanford, Sharjah both to host conferences in 2026