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The Typography of Change 

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson December 5, 2022December 15, 2022

An exhibition at San Francisco’s Letterform Archive highlights typography’s role in iconic social movements from the 1800s through the present.

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Ezhishin, the First-Ever Conference on Native North American Typography

Avatar photo by Julianne Aguilar November 8, 2022November 8, 2022

The conference organizers set out to see what Native practitioners are making, and what they’re needing or wanting in the realm of type.

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Traveling Through Lush Typographic Jungles

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 26, 2019

The Canadian designer/letterer/artist Marian Bantjes’s book I Wonder is a wildly illuminated manuscript of observational philosophy.

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An Alphabet Made of New York City Trees

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 25, 2019May 23, 2022

Artist Katie Holten created the New York City Tree Alphabet, and soon will lead the planting of messages with the living typeface.

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Many Stories Are Told Through the Typography in Science Fiction Films

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 26, 2018April 21, 2022

From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Blade Runner, Typeset in the Future examines the typography and design that filmmakers have used to lend a believability to visions of the future.

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Brand New Roman: A Font that Swipes Corporate Brands

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz August 30, 2018

Want to type a message to a loved one and think it just needs more corporate branding? Here you are.

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Unfinished Bauhaus Typefaces Are Now at Your Fingertips

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz June 19, 2018

Adobe and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation teamed up to turn fragments of five unfinished typeface designs from the 1920s and ’30s into full-fledged digital typefaces.

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A 100-Day Advent Calendar for Design Devotees, in Honor of Herb Lubalin’s 100th Birthday

by Claire Voon March 21, 2018March 21, 2018

The renowned font designer will be remembered in an online project created Cooper Union, his alma mater, highlighting various objects for a 100-day run.

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The Centennial of Centaur, a Modern Typeface that Revived a Classic Design

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 13, 2016October 12, 2016

The Grolier Club celebrates a century of Bruce Rogers’s Centaur type, the “noblest Roman of them all.”

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The Dying Typographic Art of Cutting Letters into Steel

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne August 24, 2016August 19, 2021

In a smoky atelier in Torino, Italy, Giuseppe Branchino works as one of the world’s last punch cutters.

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Assert Your 21st Amendment Freedom by Transcribing Wine Label History

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 20, 2016July 21, 2016

More than 5,000 wine labels at the University of California, Davis, chronicle the industry from the 1800s to the 1950s, before and after Prohibition in the United States.

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A Visual Essay Recalls the Latin Alphabet’s Pictorial Past

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 14, 2016January 13, 2016

The Latin alphabet’s letter A can be traced back to an Egyptian hieroglyph of an ox head; the letter M is believed to have its origins in a hieroglyph representing water.

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