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Goodness gracious me, it's actually a real book, with an introductory essay from the wonderful Morgane Côme.

This one from @letterformarchive looks spectacular and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ […]

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Graphic of a spread from a book with a column of text on the right and a black and white landscape image sitting across the fold. The image shows a school/workshop setting with multiple people painting large signs.
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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@blag @letterformarchive Somehow missed that completely — registered, thanks!
October 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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@BramMeehan have you seen this from @letterformarchive ?

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/holy-comic-lettering-batman-a-retrospective-of-comic-lettering-and-fonts/
Holy Comic Lettering Batman!: A Retrospective of Comic Lettering and Fonts
From Charlie Chan to the Caped Crusader, we will explore the impact and evolution of lettering and typography in comics.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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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
symbo1ics.bsky.social
— What's your favourite typeface?
— You probably haven't heard of it. It's was published in a student type specimen and hasn't ever been released

(I don't have a favourite; I just am amused that designers will put up wildly lovely unreleased work &let us cook;+ www.matterofsorts.com)

#typography
Screenshot of page of type specimen on archive.org https://archive.org/details/lfatype0140/LfA_Type_0140_10.jpg Dexheim by Graham Hicks Publication date 2018 Topics Type Specimen Collection letterformarchive; additional_collections; stream_only Language English
October 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
San Francisco folk, make your own sign with New Bohemia's Damon Styer at this @letterformarchive workshop series starting 1 November:

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/what-s-your-sign-baby-make-your-own/

#signpainting #signwriting #lettering #sanfrancisco
Two square images side by side. On the left is a page from an antique French sign painter's portfolio showing different hand-painted embellishments on four different letters. On the right is a letter E in green on black with mark-up lines and directional arrows used to show the brushstrokes that the letter is formed from.
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Two weeks ago, after our @letterformarchive session, a woman approached me to introduce herself. I was completely struck down, as that woman turned out to be Patricia Cué, author of Bardas de Baile: Mexican Wall Painting […]

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Woman and man smiling with hands over each other's shoulders and fingers pointing at each other. They are in a gallery setting with lettering, typographic, and artistic displays in the background.
June 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
So long San Francisco.

Three days was far too short, even if all I had to do was visit @letterformarchive and take the @ihazrabies ghost sign walks, but I still managed to pack a lot in.

Thank you to everyone that made it a very special first visit to the West […]

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Silhouetted man sitting on a rock and looking out to sea as the sun dips below the horizon.
June 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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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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'Inside Letterform Archive' is @stewf's regular BLAG column and I'm pinching myself that I will finally get to be inside @letterformarchive myself this weekend.

This is ahead of Monday's session with Michelle "Meng" Nguyen and Damon @nbsigns Styer.

'A Sign […]

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Magazine spread titled "The Lehmann Label Collection" and showing five different hand-rendered drinks labels alongside the text discussing them. Magazine spread titled "French Sign Painter Portfolios" with a series of five pictures of pages from old sign and lettering books. These feature lettering, exuberant lettering efects and graphics, and pictorials alongside the text discussing them. Magazine spread titled "The Ross F. George Collection" with pictures of showcards and alphabets hand-lettered in different styles alongside the text discussing them. Magazine spread titled "Milwaukee Transit Passes" with pictures of blown up transit passes with striking lettering and layouts alongside the text discussing them.
June 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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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
Photo of a storefront window with painted signs on the glass: PIZZA II TAKEOUT • DELIVERY • CATERING SLICES & WHOLE PIES
June 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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"What do chopstick sleeves, movie programs, luggage labels, and counterculture newspapers have in common?"

https://letterformarchive.org/ephemera/

#design #art #ephemera #collection #letterformarchive
Ephemera
Letterform Archive’s collection of ephemera aims to outlast its impermanent nature and provide endless design inspiration.
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June 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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The latest Eye magazine includes a major feature on @letterformarchive.org. I like that the photographer, Maria Spann, was drawn to the parts of the stacks closest to my heart, such as the phototype catalogs.

#Phototype #LetterformArchive #TypeSpecimens
Photo of a magazine open to a spread with photos of red metal shelving filled with books, including “lettergraphics, SERIALS, BERTHOLD TYPES, BERTHOLD HEADLINES E3, and Monsen Super Display Types”
June 5, 2025 at 6:31 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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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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Woohoo! NEW ITEMS on Letterform Archive!!!
It's been a while and I know the team @letterformarchive have been working crazy hard behind the scenes, on a new system. as well as everything else that they do.
super excited to see the cool updates.

https://oa.letterformarchive.org/?searchText=*
a acreenshot of search results, showing 4 rows of different sized printed items. There's a Corita Kent poster and a Black Panthers poster and lots more on letterform, type and design.
May 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
Happy to report that The Origin of the Serif by Edward Catich and The Complete Commercial Artist from @letterformarchive are now back in stock in the BLAG Shop:

https://shop.bl.ag/products/the-origin-of-the-serif

https://shop.bl.ag/products/complete-commercial-artist

For more publications […]
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May 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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GREAT NEWS
There are 4 spots to join the workshop of the Knuth Bigelow Incubator, in partnership with @stanfordsilicon and @letterformarchive

The workshop for the South East Asian group will be lead by @typespecimint

The 2-sessions workshop on its own is 220€.

+ info, tickets: wordsoftype.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
wordsoftype.com
Next lecture!
Impacts of preserving endangered writing systems
with @typojo.bsky.social

This lecture is part of the Knuth Bigelow Incubator program, organized in partnership with @stanfordsilicon and @letterformarchive
And everyone can join to this lecture!

Info and tickets at wordsoftype.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Ooh look, something cooking at @letterformarchive with yours truly and local San Francisco sign painters Michelle "Meng" Nguyen and @nbsigns.

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/a-sign-painterly-slice-through-letterform-archive/

Although the event is in-person, a recording will be made […]
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May 16, 2025 at 4:30 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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Knowing the gems that @letterformarchive have in their collection, this will be well worth $5.

Collections Tour: Concrete Poetry
with Milosh Sokolikj, Christina Newhard
Explore a facet of Letterform Archive’s vast collection with this online, docent-led tour.

Date […]

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3 pages featuring concrete poetry. The left has sentances like streams across the page, the middle has painted words and letters, the 3rd is colourful bold printed lettering
April 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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From 7pm London time we travel back to late 1920s Japan with @stewf at @letterformarchive as he takes you deeper into the 24 volumes of The Complete Commercial Artist.

The periodical, and the archive's new book ( […]

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Illustration of a projecting cabinet sign that incorporated Japanese scripts with the word "Radio" that dominates and provides the sign with its shape: the large R extends the left portion of the sign upwards instead of being rectangular, while the O is formed into a speaker from an old radio with the tube extending downwards, taking the shape of the sign with it.
April 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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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Happy birthday @letterformarchive — 10 this year 🎂

For those able to get to San Francisco between now and October, be sure to visit this special exhibition:
https://letterformarchive.org/news/10-by-10-for-10-exhibition/

The exhibition is accompanied by an events programme that unfolds across […]
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April 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM