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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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Inglesa Excelsior, Gans specimen uploaded 25 September
Escritura Isabel, Gans specimen uploaded 25 September
Dorothy A. Yule, 75 Faces, 75 Words, 2016 - 00_1300003 uploaded July 2025
Dorothy A. Yule, 75 Faces, 75 Words, 2016 - 00_0500001 uploaded July 2025
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L&M 087-1 Presto

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Florian Hardwig said:
Presto was designed by Helmut Matheis (1917–2021) and first cast by Ludwig & Mayer in 1970.

To celebrate Matheis’ 100th birthday in November 2017, Fust & Friends released a digitization of Presto made by Andreas Seidel, at my initiative and with the authorisation of Matheis, based on a specimen courtesy of Hans Reichardt. Since 2021, Presto is available from Astype.