Letterform Archive
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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
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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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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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
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“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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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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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
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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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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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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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/
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. letterformarchive.org/shop/introdu... #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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Ermeler, C. F. (Calligrapher), Lale, J. D. (Engraver), Collection De Soixante-Sept Modèles d' Écritures…, Paris, 1818. oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=... One of many writing manuals in the Online Archive: oa.letterformarchive.org?dims=Collect... #Calligraphy #19thCentury #EngravedBooks
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.
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
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
🔴 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 mailchi.mp/theleagueofm...
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!
See Red Women’s Workshop, Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labor screen print, London, 1975 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
Design in daily life
Letterform Archive@letterformarchive.org · 2y ago“…rare books and type specimens live in the stacks alongside punk flyers and chopstick sleeves. Few cultural institutions treat both valuable and everyday objects with equal reverence. At the Archive, ephemera are no longer quite so ephemeral.” letterformarchive.org/news/this-ju... #Design #Museums
If you missed yesterday’s fabulous salon, the recording is now available: vimeo.com/1168257521?f...
Salon Series 56: The History and Craft of French Sign Painting
In Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painter Alphabets, sign painter Morgane Côme introduces readers to the dazzling chromolithographic…
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Letterform Archive@letterformarchive.org · 6mo agoWe are so pleased with the overwhelming response to our latest book, Lettres Décoratives. Meet the author, Morgane Côme, in conversation with Sam Roberts of Better Letters, on Wed, Feb 25: letterformarchive.org/shop/salon-s... #Lettering #SignPainting #Typography
We are so pleased with the overwhelming response to our latest book, Lettres Décoratives. Meet the author, Morgane Côme, in conversation with Sam Roberts of Better Letters, on Wed, Feb 25: letterformarchive.org/shop/salon-s... #Lettering #SignPainting #Typography
Salon Series 56: The History and Craft of French Sign Painting | Letterform Archive
A show-and-tell conversation celebrating the release of our new book, Lettres Décoratives
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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
[SPOTTED] The new Type West 2025 student website. Type West is a postgraduate certificate program in type design, taught in person at Letterform Archive ( @letterformarchive.org ) in San Francisco. ● More: typewest.letterformarchive.org/2025/ ● Via: typo.social/@annie/11606...
Got your tickets for Letterform Live on March 14? It will be hosted by His Plaidness, @nicholowry.bsky.social of #AntiquesRoadshow! letterformarchive.org/live/
Letterform Live
Join us March 14, 2026 for an unforgettable party to celebrate the Archive turning ten.
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The #ATypI 2026 Stanford schedule is posted! atypi.org/conferences-... Making travel plans? Save the date for a Letterform Archive open house on Sunday May 31, 10am–1pm. Details soon: letterformarchive.org/mail
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huge congrats to the @letterformarchive.org type west class of 2025! a feast of creative type design typewest.letterformarchive.org/2025/
Type West 2025
Type West is a postgraduate certificate program in type design available in-person in San Francisco and online to students worldwide. This website is presented by the Type West 2025 Online Cohort.
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Introducing our first online tour in Hindi! Friday, Feb 6 with Tanya George. लिखित संप्रेषण के इतिहास को दर्शाने वाली पुस्तकों, पत्रिकाओं, पोस्टरों, स्केचों, मूल कलाकृतियों और संबंधित अभिलेखों के एक चुने हुए संग्रह को एक्सप्लोर करें। टॉन्या जॉर्ज आपको लेटरफॉर्म आर्काइव के इस संग्रह से हिंदी में संचालित एक गाइडेड टूर के माध्यम से परिचित कराती हैं। letterformarchive.org/shop/online-...
Collections Tour: Intro to the Archive in Hindi / संग्रह का दौरा: लेटरफॉर्म आर्काइव का परिचय हिंदी में। | Letterform Archive
Discover the riches of Letterform Archive’s vast collection in this online, guided tour.
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It can feel like our city is losing its artistic core. Along with shuttering of fellow galleries and museums, we were disheartened to see the loss of SFAI and California College of the Arts (and Crafts). These institutions raised folks who made this place weird and fun, interesting and beautiful.
Letterform Archive is closed today, January 30. We invite you to get inspiration from our Online Archive and Online Exhibitions. Perhaps Strikethrough? exhibitions.letterformarchive.org/strikethrough/
Strikethrough
Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest. A Letterform Archive exhibition open through Spring 2023.
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