Letterform Archive

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Based in San Francisco, Letterform Archive is a nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community. As a library and museum, we offer radical access to a collection of over 100,000 items related to calligraphy, lettering, typography, and graphic design. This Flickr account primarily features our own photos with no known copyright restriction (but please contact us if you are a rights holder who believes otherwise). The images we share here supplement our Online Archive and editorial content. Many of the images are quick snapshots to fulfill research requests and invite context from the Flickr community. For images captured with our hi-fi photography, and other reproduction requests, please visit our site.

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Permanent massiv, Ludwig & Mayer, c.1968 (back)

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  • Letterform Archive said:

BG 015-1 Folio-Grotesk schmalfett

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  • Florian Hardwig said:
    At some point, the a lost its pronounced tail, and the top of t was straightened, see this glyph set from 1976.
  • jessamyn west said:
    Good catch, how interesting.

Max Joseph Gradl, Petzendorfer’s Schriftenatlas (1903–1905) case cover

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