<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div>Sent on behalf of the editors</div><div><br></div><div>========</div><div><br></div><div>CfP Visible Language Special Issue: Typographic Landscapes</div><div><br></div><div>We invite submissions for a special issue of Visible Language titled ‘Typographic Landscapes: Migrating types – typographic meaning-making across boundaries’ connecting scholarship in typography, graphic communication, and sociolinguistics to investigate typographic activities as social practices in public spaces.</div><div><br></div><div>We welcome contributions that bring these disciplinary perspectives into fruitful dialogue and focus on typographic meaning-making across cultural, geographical, and temporal boundaries – including themes of migration, identity, belonging, place-making, and cultural hegemony.</div><div><br></div><div>This issue will be of interest to academics, practitioners, and students working with type, text, and language in built, urban, rural, or virtual environments.</div><div><br></div><div>Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 2 September 2026</div><div>Expected date of publication: Early 2027</div><div><br></div><div>For the full call for papers, visit: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.visible-language.org/journal/__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!P6obBhSRm5dHxEITCTWkhfniq7HshQlspXfuaA8GYBcdbNwnfKeXWNjJ-gi2WNpHhHHOBtLBpwQ7tK7RKXn_BOX6ezI1gKZ6$">https://www.visible-language.org/journal/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Inquiries may be sent to the guest editors or to Assistant Editor Matthew Baxter.</div><div><br></div><div>▶ Irmi Wachendorff (irmi.wachendorff[at]<a href="http://reading.ac.uk/">reading.ac.uk</a>)</div><div>▶ Yu Li (<a href="http://yu.li/">yu.li</a>[at]<a href="http://lmu.edu/">lmu.edu</a>)</div><div>▶ Matthew Baxter (M.G.Baxter[at]<a href="http://leeds.ac.uk/">leeds.ac.uk</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to share this call with anyone in your network who might be interested. 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font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Visible Language Journal Special Issue </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Calibri-Bold; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Typographic Landscapes: Migrating Types—Typographic Meaning-Making Across Boundaries</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Deadline for submissions: 2 September 2026</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>