Our annual Rare Book Sale is back on December 6! Register to get a reminder, and a link to our online sale, with early access for Letterform Archive members. letterformarchive.org/shop/rare-bo...

Last night’s opening reception of “Piet Zwart: Brand Architect” was a great beginning for a great exhibition at @letterformarchive.org. Well worth a visit!

See you tonight! letterformarchive.org/shop/piet-zw... #PietZwart #Typography #Exhibitions #GraphicDesign

A design hero, Paul Rand, made Christmas cards for his clients & this box set brings together some of the best in faithful reproductions. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/pau...

Linear-Antiqua ad/specimen, Ludwig & Mayer, Das Plakat, 1912. (Typeface by Richard Ludwig, 1911 fontsinuse.com/typefaces/23...) Source: iaddb.org?query=search...

Announcing Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Our latest book takes an immersive look inside the large lithographic portfolios that inspired public lettering in Belle Époque France. #SignPainting #Alphabets #Lettering letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres...

The deadline for Type West is extended to November 14! If you want to learn type design in a deep way without leaving your current job, there’s no better way to do it. letterformarchive.org/education/ #TypeDesign #Typography #DesignEducation #GraphicDesign

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Our final batch of 100 Tens features contributions from this brilliant bundle of designers:⁠ ⁠ Lucas Sharp⁠ Matthijs Herzberg⁠ @herzberg.bsky.social Nolan Pelletier⁠ @nolanpelletier.bsky.social Craig Frazier⁠ Oded Ezer⁠ Christoph Niemann⁠ @christophniemann.bsky.social Petra Dočekalová Susan Kare⁠…

We continue rolling through 100 Tens to celebrate 10 years of Letterform Archive. This group includes contributions from:⁠ ⁠ James Goggin⁠ @practise.bsky.social Jean-Benoit Levy Jennifer Morla⁠ John Stevens⁠ Tezzo Suzuki Juan Villanueva⁠ Julien Priez⁠ @boogypaper.bsky.social ⁠ #100Tens

100 Tens—our multi-day fest for 10 years of Letterform Archive—spins on! This segment features contributions from:⁠ ⁠ Carl Rohrs⁠ Dinamo⁠ @abcdinamo.bsky.social Erik Van Blokland⁠ @letterror.bsky.social Zuzana Licko⁠ Design is Play⁠ Franziska Weitgruber⁠ Ganzeer⁠ @ganzeer.bsky.social ⁠ #100Tens

We’re celebrating 10 years of Letterform Archive with #100Tens. This segment features contributions from:⁠ ⁠ Thomas Ingmire⁠ Michael Schwab⁠ Sean Adams⁠ Mark SImonson @marksimonson.bsky.social Alejandro Chavetta Clement Mok Marian Bantjes alongside items from the Archive’s collection by:⁠

Our 10th birthday party continues with a subset of the “100 Tens”. This clip includes a wide range of fabulous 1s contributed by:⁠ ⁠ Antic-Ham and Francis Van Maele of Redfoxpress⁠ Laura Serra @laureola.bsky.social Laura Meseguer @laurameseguer.bsky.social Martin Venezky @martinvenezky.bsky.social

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

Angel DeCora; binding, title page, and initials; Wigwam Stories; 1901–1909 On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor Angel DeCora, a Ho-Chunk artist whose lettering filled books like this one. letterformarchive.org/news/angel-d... #IndigenousPeoplesDay #AngelDeCora #Lettering #BookDesign #HoChunk

Calligraphy by Arthur Baker. We’re honored to hold Baker’s archive of hundreds of drawings, paintings, phototype negatives, and other material. letterformarchive.org/collections/...

The first step in making better type choices is learning how to see it in a new way. Develop your typographic eye with @stewf.com (Anatomy of Type) & @slye.bsky.social (Fontstand) in our weekend “Crash Course in Type Selection”. Oct 25–26 at Letterform Archive letterformarchive.org/shop/a-crash...

@slye.bsky.social and I are bringing back our type selection workshop to @letterformarchive.org, Oct 25–26: letterformarchive.org/shop/a-crash...

See you soon! 12:00pm PT letterformarchive.org/shop/type-we...

Letterform Archive is a living archive, a perpetual project to not only preserve historic design, but to inspire new work. To mark our 10th anniversary we teamed up with COLLINS to create 100 Tens: 50 interpretations of the number “1” from the collection, paired with 50 contributions living artists.

The latest major donation to Letterform Archive made the local news: www.sfgate.com/local/articl... #Neon #SanFrancisco #Lettering #Wonderlite

Making type is fun! Learn how to create your own font, from sketch to screen (and everything in between) in this 10-week online workshop with Fer Cozzi. Introduction to Modern Type Design Wednesdays, Sep 17–Nov 19, 2025⁠ 5:00pm–8:00pm PT (10:00am–1:00pm AEST)⁠ letterformarchive.org/shop/introdu...

Đức Cao, Homecooked type specimen, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2021⁠ ⁠ Homecooked is a casual sans-serif typeface exploring the warmth and expressiveness of the flat brush.⁠ The French foundry Blaze later released Đức’s typeface as Swirl: blazetype.eu/typefaces/sw... #TypeDesign #Fonts #TypeWest

Just noticed the Ephemera Society of America posted my 2024 talk about our @letterformarchive.org Strikethrough exhibition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7bL...

@sfneon.bsky.social's Randall Ann Homan & TLM's Katie Conry appeared on @ktvufox2.bsky.social to talk about the upcoming annual #NeonSpeaks Festival & Symposium — of which the Tenderloin Museum is a proud sponsor — as well as the Museum's plans for a neon gallery in our upcoming expansion project.

not much of it is authentically Bauhaus really i went down the "what typefaces did the Bauhaus actually use?" rabbit hole recently; there are some great resources online letterformarchive.org/news/bauhaus... letterformarchive.org/news/bauhaus... Also, join @letterformarchive.org !

It’s been a joy trawling @letterformarchive.org with @typozon.bsky.social for this salon. See you next week in person or online. letterformarchive.org/shop/the-pas...

Joe Caroff, West Side Story movie poster, United States, 1961⁠ ⁠ Caroff, designer of book covers, posters, and logos, including the “007” for the James Bond franchise, died on Sunday, just before his 104th birthday. Among his iconic creations was this poster often misattributed to Saul Bass.⁠

I’m honored to share that I’ve completed the inaugural Donald Knuth & Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator (KBI) course. KBI is a groundbreaking program launched by @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social, @letterformarchive.org, and @wordsoftype.com! 🙌🏽 #TypeDesign #LanguageJustice #KBI #KnuthBigelowIncubator

New Job Opening: Editorial Assistant letterformarchive.org/news/new-job...

TypeCon2025 happens this week in Portland, and Letterform Archive will have a table at the first-ever Volumes Market (www.instagram.com/p/DMGG9HNP2eG/) which is free and open to the public. Aug 8–9, 11am–6pm at Revolution Hall. See you there? #VintageBooks #BookFair #Books #TypeCon #Typography

This [1901] Bruce catalog has a rather odd title page layout, but we love two things: 1. A fairly early halftone photograph of the New York building. 2. “BRUCE QUALITY BEST QUALITY” #TypeFoundries #BruceTypeFoundry #TypeHistory #Typography #TypeSpecimens

Join us for an online collections tour with Tanya George and Sidharth Jaishankar. “A for Akshar: India through its Letterforms” celebrates the linguistic diversity of India through its rich typographic heritage. Aug 7, 2025 8:30am–10:00am ET 6:00pm–7:30pm IST letterformarchive.org/shop/collect...

making visual connections researching @letterformarchive.org online archive. I really love their interface/discovery experience. Villa Park Santa Catalina hotel program (1934) oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=... Sneaktip zine (1993) oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=...

My wife and I went to @letterformarchive.org this afternoon for a tour by founder, Rob Saunders. What a great org they are.

Inside Calligraphic Menagerie: Of Swashbuckling Scribes and Cursive Critters From centuries-old writing manuals to our new notecard set, flourishing shows the playful side of early modern Europe’s masters of the pen. letterformarchive.org/news/inside-... #calligraphy #animals #birds

Jim was as good a storyteller as he was a letterer. At the TYPO SF 2012 conference he was in top yarn-spinning form. We’re proud to preserve the TYPO Talks archive, including this recording: vimeo.com/1098216690

Jim Parkinson died today. He was a prolific and astoundingly gifted lettering artist, type designer, and painter. I feel lucky to say he was also my friend. typographica.org/on-typograph...

(1) Four transit passes from the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co., from a collection of 300 of them from 1932-1969, held by @letterformarchive.org.

Cover, Dutch sales booklet Olivetti 82 Diaspron Typewriter Giovanni Pintori, designer c. 1965 Source (and lots more about Pintori) at the Online Archive of @letterformarchive.org; letterformarchive.org/news/giovann...

Hanns Lohrer and Walter Krafft, Folio type specimen, Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt am Main, ca. 1959. #FolioTypeface #BauerFoundry #TypeSpecimens #1950s #HannsLohrer #WalterKrafft

A wonderful, prodigious type designer to learn about and celebrate. His bio "A Life in Design" can be purchased from @letterformarchive.org letterformarchive.org/shop/w-a-dwi... #typography

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

Martin Venezky (Designer), Appetite Engineers (Agency), The 18th San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival brochure, United States, 1994⁠ See this and other work by Venezkyy in our Online Archive: oa.letterformarchive.org?dims=Collect... ⁠ #PrideMonth #SanFrancisco #MartinVenezky #LGBT

Thursday at the Archive! letterformarchive.org/shop/type-we... #TypeDesign #TypeRevivals #TypeWest

Lucille Tenazas, a Filipino designer whose work focuses on lithography and typography layered with photography, created this piece. Title: California College of Arts and Crafts Adopt-a-Book poster (1992) Archived by: Design without borders #peoplesGDarchive 
#GDHistory 
#FilipinoDesigner

Just walked by another solid window by Meng. See her (with Damon Styer of @nbsigns.bsky.social and Sam Roberts of BLAG) at @letterformarchive.org on June 16. letterformarchive.org/shop/a-sign-... #SanFrancisco #Signs #SignsByMeng #LetterformArchive

This is a stunning collection of ephemeral print for every day stuff. Y’know, tickets, flyers and labels. The typography, the creative and the history is fascinating. letterformarchive.org/ephemera/

Ganzeer, Justice for Mona (from “Of Course the Army Protected the Revolution”), 2011⁠ ⁠ Dive into the rich history and future of the Arabic script. Join Sabiha Basrai for a special tour, in person at the Archive. Fri, Jun 13, 2025 1:30pm–3:00pm PT Register: letterformarchive.org/shop/collect...

fierce pussy, For the Record, 34 × 22.75, New York⁠, 2013 From its appearance in our 2022 Strikethrough exhibition (exhibitions.letterformarchive.org/strikethrough/): “In 1991, at an ACT UP meeting in New York, activists announced the formation of a new group— ⁠ #PrideMonth #HIVAIDSActivism