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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2025-05-07T02:52:08.986557 image/svg+xml Matplotlib v3.10.1, https://matplotlib.org/ 1957 2023 200

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St. 088-1 Schreibmaschinenschrift IBM-dokument

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  • Letterform Archive said:

title page, H. H. Green, 1852

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  • Stephen Coles said:
    A particularly wild title page, especially for 1852. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Rustic in multiple colors before!

Marcellin-Legrand, etc. ca. 1834

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  • Stephen Coles said:
    Shown in Caslon 1844 and 1848 catalogs as Minion Two-Line Shaded and Bourgeois Shaded.
  • Letterform Archive said:
    A similar design is shown in a Thorowgood 1834 specimen.

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