"New Bohemian Flare: Let's Process"
Damon Styer
Item date: 2016.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
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"Photo-Lettering's One Line Manual of Styles"
Edward Benguiat, Victor Caruso
Item date: 1971.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
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American Types Handy Index
Item date: 1959.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typeephemera #typespecimen #graphicdesign
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Spartan Family
Item date: 1942.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typeephemera #graphicdesign
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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 the year, starting with archive founder Rob Saunders and @stewf discussing the archive's origins and its approaches to collecting objects for public access:
Letterform Archive · 10 × 10 for 10: Ten years of Letterform Archive. One hundred objects of typographic design.We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary with an exhibition of our most beloved artifacts. The show runs April 26 – October 12, 2025.
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Emigre #45: Untitled
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1998.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
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We are honored to publish Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024, a compendium of specimens spanning forty years of type innovation from the legendary Bay Area foundry. 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: https://letterformarchive.org/news/inside-emigre-fonts-type-specimens-1986-2024/?utm_source=Mastodon
Letterform Archive · Inside Emigre Fonts, Type Specimens, 1986–2024With 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.
Geometria de la letra romana mayuscula y minuscula...
Andres Ramirez, Don Francisco Assensio Y Mejorada
Item date: 1780.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
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Just registered for 'Drawing on Pop Culture' with Gerard Huerta, hosted online by @letterformarchive on 18 March.
Letterform ArchiveDrawing on Pop CultureA legendary lettering artist takes us on a 50-year journey through iconic logos, album covers, and the shift from analog to digital tools.
"Photo-Lettering's One Line Manual of Styles"
Edward Benguiat, Victor Caruso
Item date: 1971.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
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Books!, written by Murray McCain, designed and illustrated by John Alcorn, 1962.
Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring, New Letters and Lettering, 1938 & 1943, New York.
For a few years after I moved to the Bay Area in 2004 I organized picnics for local type people. It’s been way too long and we’ll get back to it. In meantime, @peter had the bright idea to host something similar at @letterformarchive. Join us Thursday, October 24! https://letterformarchive.org/shop/font-friends-hang-out/ #SFBA #TypeDesign #Typography #LetterformArchive #Typefaces #Fonts #Berkeley #Oakland #SanFrancisco
Letterform ArchiveFont Friends HangoutWe're hosting an informal happy hour to share an evening of community and fun with type designers & anyone else passionate about fonts.
Tom Carnase, numeral 7 for Calendario Gráfico, Ignacio Villarreal, 1976.
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͜ʖ ͡Letterform Archive has Leah’s talk up. It’s really interesting if you’re into typography https://vimeo.com/930040463
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For more Leah Spencer on being a graphic designer for Film & Television https://www.lspencerstudio.com/info #typography #LeahSpencer #letterformarchive
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Watching the process of how Leah Spencer brings in the old typography scanned into photoshop, cleaned up, and outlined in illustrator. I used a similar process when I was designing some advertising posters ages ago. #typography #LeahSpencer #letterformarchive
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.
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/