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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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IBM Selectric Univers (10 pt) uploaded 4 days ago
Houtsneeletter specimen (interior), Enschede, ca. 1928 uploaded 16 March
Houtsneeletter specimen (exterior), Enschede, ca. 1928 uploaded 16 March
Four excerpts from Franklin Type Foundry, Convenient Book of Specimens, Cincinnati, 1892 uploaded 9 February
Ornamented typefaces from the Bruce’s New York Type Foundry Abridged Specimen Book, 1869 uploaded 14 December
Ornamented typefaces from the Bruce’s New York Type Foundry Abridged Specimen Book, 1869 uploaded 14 December
Ornamented typefaces from the Bruce’s New York Type Foundry Abridged Specimen Book, 1869 uploaded 14 December
Ornamented typefaces from the Bruce’s New York Type Foundry Abridged Specimen Book, 1869 uploaded 14 December
“FAHIM” printing block for Diamond Wooden Type Works catalog uploaded 31 October
Cuban sign painter, ca. 1957 uploaded 29 October
Cuban sign painter, ca. 1957 uploaded 29 October
Cuban sign painter, 1958 uploaded 29 October
Cuban sign painter, ca. 1957 uploaded 29 October
Cuban sign painter, ca. 1957 uploaded 29 October
Cuban sign painter, ca. 1957 uploaded 29 October

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

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Letterform Archive said:
The case was also printed in a two-color version:

Page’s Wood Type catalog, 1890

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Spidra Webster said:
That one on the bottom left is so cool.

Bruce Type Foundry, Nov. 1865 abridged specimen, Gothics detail

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Letterform Archive said:
First page of this specimen:
Dan Reynolds said:
Letterform Archive Stephen Coles Do you know have any showings of the type from the few years before this? The first instance of the design that I found was from 1864; Wilhelm Gronau’s family included the four little sizes at the bottom of a sheet of display types that it bundled with Journal für Buchdruckerkunst (the issue from 9 November 1864). My notes read that the design was already at the White or Boston Type Foundries in 1860. I guess I have that from Sara?
Stephen Coles said:
Yes, Boston. Read the rollercoaster ride in these comments, just updated last week: