When Letterform Archive opened in 2015, it became an immediate destination for lovers of typography and letters — it’s already had over 5,000 visitors from 30 countries. They come for letter-blocks, ...

An exhibition at San Francisco’s Letterform Archive highlights typography’s role in iconic social movements from the 1800s through the present. Munro, a surfer, paddled out with a group of others on ...

From the Black Panthers and LGBTQ+ movement, to the Summer of Love and punk music, counterculture has long defined the Bay Area — and posters, buttons, zines and newspapers have always been a means ...

What most people recognize as graffiti art arose in the late 1960s in such places as Philadelphia and especially New York, which, by the early to mid '70s, was the unofficial capital of an art form ...

Typeface (such as Times New Roman) refers to the design that gives a set of letters, numbers, and symbols their signature “look”. Font, on the other hand, is a specific implementation of a typeface, ...

The portal allows users to narrow down search results by "design-specific" terms, as well as geographic, chronological parameters. Courtesy of Letterform Archive In an age when you can toggle between ...

To celebrate the CODEX VII Book Fair and the 52nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair, Letterform Archive welcomes book lovers for a special reception. Join us for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, ...