CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/14/2025

Share the Letter Love!

Friends, this Valentine’s Day week, we couldn’t resist. Pictured here are four of the forty pull-out postcards included in Letterform Archive’s archival typography book, Letter Love. Highlighting one far-out yet beloved example of each of the 26 letters of the alphabet plus the numbers 1–10 and a few key symbols, this perforated cardboard paperback is drawing from more than 100,000 items in Letterform Archive’s deeply researched collection. The stars of today’s show include the letter L from the alphabet Calder, 1952, Switzerland, by Armin Haab & Walter Haettenschweiler; the letter O from the alphabet Ornamental Riband, date unknown, by an unknown designer at Freeman Delamotte engraver, compiled in 1905, Chicago; the letter V from an unnamed alphabet, as seen in Ornate Colored Alphabets, 1883, Weimar; and the letter E from the typeface Four-Line Pica Ornamented, date unknown, as seen in the type specimen catalog Bruce’s New York Type Foundry, 1882, New York. Other designs are by Vincent de Boer, Peter Malutzki, Sylvia Trenker, Tauba Auerbach, Tezzo Suzuki, Kuwayama Yasaburo, Milton Glaser and Paul Rand, among others.