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A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
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Nick Sherman has written a very nice review of Rich Kegler’s movie about Jim Rimmer. I have it on DVD but haven’t watched it since it came out!
A ★★★★★ review of Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century (2011)
Today I thought I’d take a few minutes to add Jim Rimmer’s Duensing Titling typeface to the Fonts In Use database. As often happens with Fonts In Use, the task I thought would only take a few minutes ...
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September 4, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Identity – A Czech Graphic Design Love Story
Sun, Sep 27, 2026

Antiques Roadshow’s Nicholas Lowry (@nicholowry.bsky.social) joins us in person to screen the award-winning documentary, followed by a pop-up of Czech objects from Letterform Archive.

Get tix: letterformarchive.org/shop/film-sc...
August 30, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Most printed ephemera wasn't meant to last.

In VANISHING CULTURE, Eve Scarborough explores the hidden stories inside type ephemera.

📚 Read for free or purchase in print:
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What happens to old menus, concert programs, and type specimen booklets once they've served their purpose?
August 19, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Antiques Roadshow’s @nicholowry.bsky.social will join us live, and in person, on Sep 27 to screen an award-winning documentary, followed by a pop-up of Czech objects from Letterform Archive. letterformarchive.org/shop/film-sc...
Identity – A Czech Graphic Design Love Story | Letterform Archive
Antiques Roadshow’s Nicholas Lowry joins us in person to screen the award-winning documentary, followed by a pop-up of Czech objects from Letterform Archive.
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August 19, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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SF’s @letterformarchive.org annual Type West type design program is gearing up for applications for 2027. A wonderful program to kick start your font design (a)vocation. if you’ve ever wanted to do this kind of thing, this is a fantastic way to get into it docs.google.com/forms/d/1HqL...
I would like more information about Type West
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July 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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And now our founder and curator Rob Saunders is interviewed in celebration of his spot in the Eames Curious 100: www.eamesinstitute.org/stories/insi...

#LetterformArchive #EamesCurious100 #GLAM #Archives #GraphicDesign #Typography
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July 27, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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Our associate curator, @stewf.com / @typographica.org talks furniture, birding, and type design on the Re(un)covered podcast: reuncoveredpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2206728/epis...

#TypeDesign #Typography #Birding #MidCenturyModern
So Mod - Re(un)Covered
“Birding has so many connections to type”🦉🐦‍⬛🦢Mid-century shifts to clean lines as we situate two more women type designers and their work: Montan by Anna Maria Schildbach (1924–?) and Thomas Schrift ...
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July 25, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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Still a few spots for the class I’m teaching at @letterformarchive.org on Saturday: letterformarchive.org/shop/a-crash...

Followed by @slye.bsky.social on Sunday: letterformarchive.org/shop/a-crash...

#Typography #TypeSelection #Fonts #Workshop
A Crash Course in Type Selection, Part 1: Exploring and Choosing Type | Letterform Archive
Learn techniques to make finding the right font the best part of any job.
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July 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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We're looking for an Art Director to shape the visual identity of our trade art-book publishing program. The role will be onsite at Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Read more and apply: jobs.gusto.com/postings/let...

#BookDesign #ArtDirector #DesignJobs
Red graphic with the words “We’re Hiring!” in the center and screened illustrated portraits of people in the background.
June 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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We’re seeking someone to lead our digitization program: jobs.gusto.com/postings/let...

#Museums #Digitization #GLAM #GLAMJobs
Digitization Archivist at Letterform Archive
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June 1, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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For our UK friends.
presentcorrect.bsky.social Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · May 28
330 faithfully reproduced old hotel labels from around the world, which also happen to be actual STICKERS. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/hot...
Great for journals, mail, bags and gifts.
May 30, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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If you’re a foundry looking to expand access to type design, and reach the next generation of students, check out our new initiative: The Small Foundry Fund for Type West. letterformarchive.org/news/the-sma...

#TypeDesign #Scholarships #Fonts #TypeWest
The Small Foundry Fund for Type West at Letterform Archive
Introducing a new community-driven funding initiative devoted to expanding access to our Type West program.
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May 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Just a reminder that you can save any image in our Online Archive to your own sets. We call them Tables, inspired by our tour experience on site at Letterform Archive: letterformarchive.org/online-archi... Just create an account on our main site.
The Online Archive
Access thousands of graphic design artifacts from anywhere in the world with our custom-built website.
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May 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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At the conclusion of my first year of teaching with the Type West program at @letterformarchive.org, the class of 2019 produced this picture – which I still think is amazing. typewest2019.com/about/
Twelve students posed in front of a wall of bookshelves, all well-dressed, one holding an apple, one with a parrot on his finger, and another seated with a dog in her lap.
April 23, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Still spots left in Fer Cozzi’s online workshop, Intro to Modern Type Design. Over ten weeks, gain an understanding of the methodologies and software used to produce high-quality digital typefaces. Leave with your own font.

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#TypeDesign #Workshops #Typography
Introduction to Modern Type Design | Letterform Archive
Over ten weeks, gain an understanding of the methodologies and software used to produce high-quality digital typefaces.
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April 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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Ermeler, C. F. (Calligrapher), Lale, J. D. (Engraver), Collection De Soixante-Sept Modèles d' Écritures…, Paris, 1818.

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One of many writing manuals in the Online Archive: oa.letterformarchive.org?dims=Collect...

#Calligraphy #19thCentury #EngravedBooks
Detail of a book page showing a long, continuous stroke from a broad-nibbed pen. Below is the heading, “OBSERVATION.” and some French text. Page of a book with the heading, “POSTURE DU CORPS.” Pictured are three people sitting at desks with pen in hand and writing on paper.
April 17, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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We spent the weekend at #LetterWest in Midvale, Utah where we ran into Hayley Francis (www.typeaffiliated.com/about-2), one of the Archive’s first visitors. She tells us how the tour was a key part of her early career as a lettering artist.
April 13, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Today and tomorrow are your last chances to see GOOD LUCK 2026, a celebration of Lunar New Year co-curated by Jen Dao (姚逸雯) and Sherry Xu Chou (徐雪俐). We’re open 11am–6pm. letterformarchive.org/visit/#on-view
A graphic with red text reading “GOOD LUCK 2026” in English and Chinese.
April 4, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Coming to our Reading Room gallery, April 9 to 26: Tristram Shandy, The First Modern Book, curated by @debbiemillman.bsky.social. Learn more and plan your visit: letterformarchive.org/visit/#on-view
A graphic with a title at the top and a photo of a book below. The title reads, “Tristram Shandy / The First Modern Book”. The photo shows an interior spread of an old book. The text appears typical of 18th-century books until it gets to an illustration of squiggly lines on the lefthand page. On the right, another drawing of a wandering line is labeled with letters. The text describes the line as an illustration of a character’s travels.
April 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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🔴 The Weekly Typographic
by #MicahRich & TLOMT
“Lettres Décoratives” / @letterformarchive.org
Brands - Handwritten Type / Typeheist
Petra Dočekalová / Typenetwork
Design Spells
History of Software Design
#TheLeagueOfMoveableType #typography

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April 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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We’re proud to share that Letterform Archive’s founder and curator, Rob Saunders, was selected by the Eames Institute as one of their Curious 100!
March 19, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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See Red Women’s Workshop, Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labor screen print, London, 1975
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In 1974, a group of feminist artists founded the See Red Women’s Workshop to address gender issues such as capitalism’s reliance on unpaid homekeeping and childrearing.

#IWD #InternationalWomensDay
Poster screen printed in a single color (reddish brown). It shows a factory at the top with a line of people existing out the right side to the bottom of the poster where they are cared for by a conveyor belt of women, then the enter the left side of the factory.
March 9, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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Women in Graphic Design
We’re dedicated to preserving and celebrating typographic design from underrepresented groups, including women.
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March 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Design in daily life
A chopstick sleeve from a restaurant on the slopes of Mt Fuji with an image of the mountain and instructions on how to fold it into a Fujisan-shaped chopstick rest.
March 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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If you missed yesterday’s fabulous salon, the recording is now available: vimeo.com/1168257521?f...
February 26, 2026 at 6:07 PM