The Archive’s type design program turns 10 this year! Take a look at what a half-dozen recent grads created during their time here.
It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since the inaugural class of Type West (then known as Type@Cooper West) welcomed its first type design students! In 2025, we graduated 24 talented individuals from our local cohort in San Francisco and 17 other cities worldwide. The website showcasing the Class of 2025’s final typeface projects is now live!
We’re partnering with Stanford to keep languages alive through type design education.
Detail from an early version of The World’s Writing Systems Poster which presents one typographic reference glyph for all 293 known writing systems in the world, living or historical. See the latest version.
Many of the world’s languages are under-supported by digital typography. A crucial step toward change is inclusive type design education that meets the next generation of font makers where they are.
Letterform Archive is thrilled to announce its participation in the Knuth-Bigelow Type Design Incubator (KBI), a new educational partnership with SILICON, Stanford University’s initiative to advance digital inclusion and protect lower-resourced languages from extinction. Stanford Professor Thomas Mullaney, co-director of SILICON, is the driving force behind this effort to support digitally-disadvantaged languages. The inaugural five-week course was developed jointly by Lisa Huang from Words of Type, and Grendl Löfkvist and Angela Riechers from the Archive.
