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Just booked for ‘Rotate: The Art Of The Ambigram’ with Nikita Prokhorov / @letterformarchive

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/rotate-the-art-of-the-ambigram/

I’ve been fascinated by ambigrams since learning about Scott Kim’s (https://www.scottkim.com) Inversions book ( […]
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October 22, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Does anyone know how to get an RSS feed from the @eyemagazine blog?

https://www.eyemagazine.com/blog

PS. The latest has a nice write-up of the @letterformarchive book: Lettres Décoratives.

https://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/books-received-65

#rss #EyeMagazine
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October 1, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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Tag your pica na tabela de nomes de tamanho padrão de fonte:
Um post do Instagram do perfil letterformarchive com os tamanhos padrão de fonte e seus nomes em inglês: 6: nonpareil 7: minion 8: brevier 9: bourgeois 10: long primer 11: small pica 12: pica 14: english 18: great primer 24: double pica 36: 3 line pica 48: 4 line pica 60: 5 line pica 72: 6 line pica
August 20, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Damn you @letterformarchive! I REALLY don’t have the time to go through everything in your Ephemera collection. This is nuts!

I especially enjoyed the Lehmann label collection. I was fortunate enough to see their exhibit at the (sadly now defunct) California […]

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Banner for the Vintage Wine, Beer & Sprits Labels at the California Historical Society, April 2017. Various beer labels in a frame, displayed at the Vintage Wine, Beer, & Spirits Labels exhibit at the California Historical Society, April 2017. Various wine labels in a frame, displayed at the Vintage Wine, Beer, & Spirits Labels exhibit at the California Historical Society, April 2017. Interior photo of workers inside the Lehmann Printing & Lithographing Co., displayed at the Vintage Wine, Beer, & Spirits Labels exhibit at the California Historical Society, April 2017.
May 31, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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אחת המילים באנגלית שהכי מבלבלת אותי.
המקור הוא מהעברית, אבל לא בדיוק כל המשמעות עברה, אז היא עושה לי קֶצֶר בראש בכל פעם שאני נתקלת בה.
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Attached: 1 image Leviathan luggage tag, New York, ca. 1930.⁠ ⁠ With a crew of over 1,000, the Leviathan was one of the largest passenger ships crossing the Atlantic during its main run between 1922 and 1934.⁠ ⁠ In 2023 we announced that the Richard Sheaff Ephemera Collection had found a home at Letterform Archive: https://letterformarchive.org/news/richard-sheaff-vintage-ephemera/?utm_source=Mastodon. We continue to process over 26,000 trade cards, labels, tickets, and other ephemera.⁠ ⁠ #RichardEphemeraCollection #Ephemera #LuggageTag #UnitedStatesLinesLeviathan #ArtDeco
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February 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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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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Read more about #SeeRedWomensWorkshop in our book, Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest. ⁠ letterformarchive.org/shop/striket...
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#Strikethrough #LetterformArchiveBooks #PublicationDesign #LetterformArchive #Typography #TypographyBooks⁠
Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest | Letterform Archive
A powerful new look at history-making uses of lettering, type, and design to amplify resistance and inspire change In chapters exploring the many ways to voice dissent (RESIST!, VOTE!, STRIKE!, TEACH!...
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March 9, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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To mark our 10th anniversary we teamed up with COLLINS to create 100 Tens: 50 interpretations of the number 1 from the Archive, paired with 50 contributions from invited designers. Now you can see them all in one place on our blog: letterformarchive.org/news/100-ten...

#100Tens #LetterformArchive
February 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive partnered with the San Francisco office of COLLINS on 100 Tens — 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection paired with 50 new works from a range of today’s leading designers.

#LetterformArchive #100Tens
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Recently we hosted a tour of Arabic calligraphy and type with Sabiha Basrai, Letterform Archive docent and co-owner of Design Action Collective.

Sabiha’s next tour is Design and Social Justice on July 11: letterformarchive.org/shop/collect...

#LetterformArchive #DecolonizingDesign #DesignMuseums
June 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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We’re partnering with Stanford to keep languages alive through type design education. Learn more about the Knuth-Bigelow Type Design Incubator: letterformarchive.org/news/the-knu...

#TypeDesign #KBI #LetterformArchive #StanfordSILICON
The Knuth-Bigelow Type Design Incubator
We’re partnering with Stanford to keep languages alive through type design education.
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May 31, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Job opening: Retail Manager at Letterform Archive in San Francisco.

Help the Archive realize its potential as the premier shop to buy design books and gifts. Apply by May 18. letterformarchive.org/news/new-job...

#LetterformArchive #Jobs #Retail #Bookstores #Bookshops
New Job Opening: Retail Manager
Help the Archive realize its potential as the premier shop to buy design books and gifts. Apply by May 18.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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To celebrate Letterform Archive’s 10th anniversary, we’re filling our jewel-box gallery with 100 staff picks. Get a glimpse into every corner of the Archive through the lens of the 10 teams who steward the collection.

#LetterformArchive #DesignMuseum #Typography #Lettering #Exhibition
Animated gif cycling through different styles of 10s making up the title “10 x 10 for 10. Ten Years of Letterform Archive. One hundred objects of typographic design.”
April 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Preview a selection from the book’s 1,200+ pages—and read a foreword from Associate Curator Stephen Coles on the importance of the Emigre archive to the mission of Letterform Archive: letterformarchive.org/news/inside-...

#Emigre #EmigreFonts #TypeDesign #LetterformArchive #Typography #Fonts
Inside Emigre Fonts, Type Specimens, 1986–2024
With 40 complete type specimens packed into 5 pounds, this compendium documents the output of one of the earliest (and most prolific) digital type foundries. Here’s a peek at the book’s foreword.
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March 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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We’re hiring! The Digital Marketing Manager will connect Letterform Archive to our growing community through digital ads, social media, and creative storytelling.

Help us share the joy of letters! Apply by March 23: letterformarchive.org/news/job-ann...

#Jobs #DigitalMarketing #LetterformArchive
New Opening: Digital Marketing Manager
Connect the Archive to our growing community through digital ads, social media, and creative storytelling. Apply by March 23.
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March 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Elaine Lustig Cohen, mailing card for “A Millionth Anniversary”, Meridian Books, New York, 1958.

Letterform Archive is celebrating its own anniversary this year. Sign up to hear the big news: letterformarchive.org/mail?utm_sou...

#ElaineLustigCohen #Typography #LetterformArchive #MidCenturyModern
Card printed in red and black on a white paper. Multiple “1000000”s are each made of single bar and filled circles. Amid these numbers are the words “a millionth anniversary”. Text on the right side: “Meridian Books is a little less than three years old, but we’re already celebrating our millionth anniversary. In early 1958 – thanks to the 17/76 bookstores now stocking Meridian Books – we will sell our millionth Meridian and Living Age Book. If you are not yet stocking these fast-selling quality paper bound books, see the enclosed order form for the complete list and details of our unique Cumulative Discount Plan.” “Write for information: Nathan Melman, Sales Manager Meridian Books, Inc. 17 Union Square West New York City 3, N. Y.”
March 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Jean Larcher, Pop Message Postcards, Dover, 1979

#Lettering #Postcards #JeanLarcher #LetterformArchive #1970s
Script lettering with a glossy highlight effect spelling the word “Write” on a checkered background. Script lettering with a glossy highlight effect spelling the word “OK” on a checkered background. Script lettering with a glossy highlight effect spelling the word “HELP” on a striped background. Script lettering with a glossy highlight effect spelling the word “GOODBYE” on a striped background.
February 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Michael Harvey, Calligraphy in the Graphic Arts, London, 1988; and Creative Lettering: Drawing & Design, 1985.

Images 3 and 4 show the difference between calligraphy (written letters) and lettering (drawn letters).

#Calligraphy #Lettering #Pen #Brush #MichaelHarvey #LetterformArchive
Spread of a book on “Broad-edged pen strokes” as illustrated by a hand holding a pen at different angles the stroke shapes those angles create. Spread of a book on “Flexible pointed pen and brush strokes” as illustrated by a hand holding a pen and applying different pressure to create different stroke thicknesses. Cropped details from previous spreads showing hands holding pointed pen and broad-edged pen. Illustration from another book showing a hand sketching the outline of a letter with a pencil.
February 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Books!, written by Murray McCain, designed and illustrated by John Alcorn, 1962.

#LetterformArchive #ABC #MurrayMcCain #JohnAlcorn #Lettering #Illustration #1960s
Three large letters (ABC) in a loose, funky style. Spread of a book printed in bright colors. Text: LANGUAGE is what makes it possible. LANGUAGE is the use of MINDS & HEARTS & VOICES & HANDS All the things you want to say. …
February 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Campaign button for Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, who won the presidency in 1976 over Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford.

As seen in The Oliver Stone Experience by Matt Zoller Seitz, Abrams, 2016.

#LetterformArchive #JimmyCarter #CampaignButton #Ephemera
January 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Aldo Novarese, diagram accompanying his article, “Eurostile, a Synthetic Expression of Our Times” in Pagina, International Magazine of Graphic Design, No. 4, January 1964.⁠
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#LetterformArchive #AldoNovarese #Eurostile #TypeDesign #Architecture #InformationDesign #ModernArchitecture #HoHoHo
A graphic of three architectural elements – a Roman arch, a Gothic arch, and a Modern apartment building – each next to a related style of type spelling the words “ho, ho, ho”.
December 24, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring, New Letters and Lettering, 1938 & 1943, New York.

#LetterformArchive #Lettering #LetteringManuals #PaulCarlyle #GuyOring #Rain
The word “RAIN” made of hundreds of droplets of rain. Black ink on beige paper. A page of four words in a grid, each portraying a word with a lettering effect that represents it: “SPEED, RAIN, GALE, LIGHTNING”.
December 17, 2024 at 5:14 AM
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Gustave Morin, Clean Sails: Typewriter Poems from the Sun Parlour of Canada, New Star Books, Vancouver, 2015.
#LetterformArchive #GustaveMorin #TypewriterPoetry #VisualLanguage #ConcretePoetry
Typewritten letters on a page arranged to form a dripping faucet. Typewritten letters on a page arranged to form a group of mice. Typewritten letters on a page arranged to form a tower of ’o’s and zeroes, like a very tall snowman. Typewritten letters on a page arranged to form a group of snails.
November 26, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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Two new workshops in early 2026:

Intro to modern type design: Jan 29
10 weeks, Design your first font.
letterformarchive.org/shop/introdu... @letterformarchive

Experimental Letterforms: Feb 3
5 weeks, thinking outside of type.
www.typeelectives.com/courses/expe... @typeelectives
Experimental Letterforms with Type Electives Intro to modern type design with Letterform Archive
December 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Recent student work from my Introduction to Modern Type Design workshop with @letterformarchive & @typewest
In order: Anna Stuart, Ben Rowe, Cinthya Martinez, John Pugsley, Meghan White, Cooper, Sharon Zhang
#designworkshop #typedesign #fonts #fontdesign #typedesignworkshop #designingtype
March 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM