mastodon 4.6.9A 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.
#Typography #Lettering #GraphicDesign #Books #Library #Museum #DesignMuseum #DesignSchool #DesignPublisher #DesignBooks
New from Letterform Archive Books, the first of a new line featuring reproductions of our favorite collections: Creative Papers. https://letterformarchive.org/shop/wood-type-creative-papers/
#WoodType #HarrildAndSons #Stationery #GiftWrap #TypeSpecimens #Typography
Identity – A Czech Graphic Design Love Story
Sun, Sep 27, 2026
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.
#SFBA #CzechDesign #AntiquesRoadshow #Documentaries #SanFrancisco #GraphicDesign
Antiques Roadshow’s Nicholas Lowry 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. https://letterformarchive.org/shop/film-screening-identity-a-czech-graphic-design-love-story/
Our associate curator, @stewf@mstdn.party / @typographica@typo.social talks furniture, birding, and type design on the Re(un)covered podcast: https://reuncoveredpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2206728/episodes/18185756-so-mod
And now our founder and curator Rob Saunders is interviewed in celebration of his spot in the Eames Curious 100: https://www.eamesinstitute.org/stories/inside-letterform-archive-with-rob-saunders/
#LetterformArchive #EamesCurious100 #GLAM #Archives #GraphicDesign #Typography
We’re seeking someone to lead our digitization program: https://jobs.gusto.com/postings/letterform-archive-digitization-archivist-6a46aedc-5a48-44c8-80c8-f187e20820e1
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: https://jobs.gusto.com/postings/letterform-archive-art-director-bc57def7-c25d-4231-ae4b-522f7488269d
See Red Women’s Workshop, Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labor screenprint, London, 1975
In 1974, a group of artists founded the See Red Women’s Workshop to further the women’s liberation movement. Their posters address gender discrepancies in pay, capitalism’s reliance on unpaid homekeeping and childrearing, sexist depictions in advertising, and uniting women against racism.
Read more about See Red Women’s Workshop in our book, Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest. https://letterformarchive.org/shop/strikethrough-typographic-messages-of-protest/
#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Strikethrough #LetterformArchiveBooks #PublicationDesign #Printing #Publication #LetterformArchive #Typography #TypographyBooks #SeeRedWomensWorkshop
Still spots left in @fercozzi@typo.social’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.
https://letterformarchive.org/shop/introduction-to-modern-type-design-rjrq/
#TypeDesign #Workshops #DesignWorkshops #Typography #GraphicDesign #Ad
Ermeler, C. F. (Calligrapher), Lale, J. D. (Engraver), Collection De Soixante-Sept Modèles d' Écritures…, Paris, 1818.
https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_writingmanuals_0035&targPic=lfa_writingmanuals_0035_009.jpg
One of many writing manuals in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/?dims=Collection&vals0=Writing%20Manuals&sortby=decade
It can feel like our city is losing its artistic core. Along with the 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.
But we haven’t given up on #SanFrancisco. Our galleries are still free every Thursday: https://letterformarchive.org/visit/
And you can join us for Letterform Live on March 14 to help ensure the Archive remains open to all: https://letterformarchive.org/live/
#SFBA #Museums #Libraries #Archives #GraphicDesign #Typography
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.
The project features contributions from designers around the world, including Marian Bantjes, Martin Venezky, Susan Kare, Tezzo Suzuki, and more. The work showcases an astounding range of creativity and imagination.
Our 10th birthday party continues with a subset of the “100 Tens”. This clip includes fabulous 1s contributed by:
Antic-Ham and Francis Van Maele of Redfoxpress
Laura Serra @laureola@typo.social
Laura Meseguer @LauraMeseguer@typo.social
Martin Venezky
alongside items from the Archive’s collection by:
Ahn Sang Soo
Albrecht Dürer (orig. Germany, 1525)
Alvin Lustig
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.
El Ombligo del Libro / Rodrigo Ortega
W. A. Dwiggins
Introducing our first online tour in Hindi! Friday, Feb 6 with @tanyatypes@typo.social.
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।
https://letterformarchive.org/shop/online-collections-tour-intro-to-the-archive/
This Just In: The Darden Type Design Archive. We’re honored to receive hundreds of annotated font proofs from Joshua Darden, the first African American type designer. The material, produced between 2006 and 2012, documents and illuminates the process of making typefaces.
Read more about Darden and the work from members of his drawing staff: https://letterformarchive.org/news/darden-type-design-archive/
#LetterformArchive #DardenStudio #TypeDesign #BlackHistory #BlackDesigners
Photo of Darden: Jean François Porchez
The @atypi@typo.social 2026 Stanford schedule is posted! https://atypi.org/conferences-events/atypi-2026-stanford/program/
Making travel plans? Save the date for a Letterform Archive open house on Sunday May 24, 10am–1pm. Details soon: https://letterformarchive.org/mail
J. Richard (student) and P. Audibert (teacher), Cours de Théorie pour le Tissage, Lyon, 1882.
New on the blog! 🧶 Threading Letters, by our editorial correspondent @tanyatypes@typo.social.
In this installment of For Your Reference, we revisit the Archive’s stacks for books and other items that build a tangible connection between threads and letterforms. Check it out: https://letterformarchive.org/news/threading-letters/
#LetterformArchive #TextileDesign #TextileArt #Embroidery #Weaving #Lettering #CrossStitch
@MauriceMeilleur@typo.social is back for another online workshop: Typographic Patterns and Animations with Python and DrawBot.
For designers who code and love type, pattern, and motion, and want to incorporate them all in their work.
Dec 7–15, 10am–1pm PT (18:00–21:00 GMT)
https://letterformarchive.org/shop/typographic-patterns-and-animations-with-python-and-drawbot/
#Python #PythonProgramming #Animation #DrawBot #Typography #Ad
TypeCon2025 (@typecon@typo.social) happens this week in Portland, and Letterform Archive will have a table at the first-ever Volumes Market (https://www.instagram.com/p/DMGG9HNP2eG/) which is free and open to the public. Aug 8–9, 11am–6pm at Revolution Hall. See you there?
Our collections director Kate Long Stellar will be on in a few minutes in conversation with @stewf@mstdn.party / @typographica@typo.social . Join us!
Join us online next week for a special collections tour with @tanyatypes@typo.social and Sidharth Jaishankar.
“A for Akshar: India through its Letterforms” celebrates the visual and linguistic diversity of India through its rich typographic heritage.
Thu, Aug 7, 2025
8:30am–10:00am ET
6:00pm–7:30pm IST
https://letterformarchive.org/shop/collections-tour-a-for-akshar-india-through-its-letterforms/
The luminous letters of Hansje van Halem, now in the Online Archive. Dank u, Hansje, for sharing your work with the world. These are among over 1,000 items added to the site in 2022
https://oa.letterformarchive.org/search?dims=People&vals0=Hansje%20van%20Halem&friendly0=Hansje%20van%20Halem – a goal reached thx to donors & members. https://letterformarchive.org/join
#HansjeVanHalem #OnlineArchive #LetterformArchive #Illustration #Lettering #GraphicDesign #Poster
