Letterform Archive

Letterform Archive is a non-profit museum and special collections library in San Francisco, California dedicated to collecting materials on the history of lettering, typography, printing, and graphic design. It is curated by graphic designer Rob Saunders, who founded the museum with his private collection of „books, periodicals, maquettes, posters, and other ephemera“ in 2014.The museum opened in February 2015 with 15,000 items.Visits can be scheduled by appointment.

During Covid-19 Letterform Archive has just launched its online archive featuring more than 9,000 hi-fi images of a mere 1,500 from the 60,000 objects housed at the Archive. For example, here are covers from nearly five dozen corporate identity manuals.

http://oa.letterformarchive.org/