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Events

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  • Online Tours

தொகுப்புகளைக் காணும் சுற்றுப்பயணம்: லெட்டர்ஃபார்ம் ஆர்க்கைவுக்கு அறிமுகம், தமிழில் (Collections Tour: Intro to the Archive in Tamil)

with Sidharth Jaishankar
  • Lectures & Salons

What Historical Type Can Teach Contemporary Type Designers

with Michele Patanè
  • Lectures & Salons

Engineering the Word: The Last Days of London’s Type Archive

with Richard Ardagh

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  • Collections Publishing

Inside Super-Veloz: Joan Trochut’s Modular Modernism and the Dream of Typographic Abundance in Spain, 1930–1955

Celebrating the unique system of shapes for daydreaming printers, our new book presents seven design albums that help tell the story of Spain’s greatest adventure in type.

  • Collections Publishing

In Conversation with the Authors of Super-Veloz

With the launch of a new book preview site, we asked Alex Trochut and Andreu Balius for a crash course on the modular type marvel from Spain.

  • Collections Publishing

An Undercover Look at Letterform Archive’s Graffiti Collection

For the past five years, our library of graffiti zines has provided a rare snapshot of an underrepresented art form and the dynamic community that sustains it. Graffiti writer and type designer Kel Troughton discusses his role in assembling the collection.

  • Publishing

Inside Boutiques Magnifiques

Our new suite of postcards combines old-world Parisian charm with modern flourishes from illustrator and lettering artist Laura Serra. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at this delightful collaboration.

  • Education Exhibitions

Type for All! Ten Years of Type West

The Archive’s type design certificate program celebrates its tenth year! Over 260 examples of student work will be on display in our main gallery from September 26 to November 15, 2026.

  • Exhibitions

Martin Venezky: Process Work

Our next pop-up exhibition is on view in the Reading Room gallery from September 26 to November 8, 2026. Jon Sueda speaks to Martin Venezky about the body of work that inspired it.

  • Publishing

Inside Creative Papers

From the golden age of letterpress to the birth of digital type, our new series of gift-wrap and craft-paper books transform beloved objects from our collection for use in wrapping, crafting, framing, and decor.

  • Collections

From the Collection: Dorothy and Otis Shepard

Known for their decades-long partnership with the Wrigley Company, this creative couple helped introduce modernist design to everyday life in midcentury America.

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