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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p46 — Tintoretto, Constantia, Iris

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  • Florian Hardwig said:
    One detail that got lost in the black-and-white reprint by Dover is that Tintoretto is the name of the bicolor set. The shadowed style on its own is named Virgil. It could be filled with the solid Aldo Manutio.
    Revivals by Photo-Lettering and Letraset are named Tintoretto, but these versions actually correspond to the original Virgil.

“The Living Alphabet”, Warren Chappell

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  • interrobang letterpress said:
    I own the Trajanus from Finn Typographic that this book is set in.
  • Letterform Archive said:
    interrobang letterpress Wow!

St. 020-1 Information breite fette

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  • William Hastings said:
    My favorite typeface of all time. Twenty years ago, I discovered a stash of this face, in 66 pt. no less, while taking a class at ArtCenter's Archetype Press. The drawer was unmarked — which meant its contents hadn't yet been identified. I felt like I'd struck gold.

    ... so to honor my discovery, I created a specimen poster for my final class project that term.

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