A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure

NOTE: This book is available for pre-sale only. We expect copies any minute and we’ll fill orders as soon as books arrive.

This one is a toolkit for writing and remembering queer and trans histories. Expanding on Nat Pyper’s series of typefaces whose letterforms derive from the life stories and printed traces of countercultural queers of the last several decades, this new book showcases overlooked biographies alongside previously unseen archival materials. It also highlights Pyper’s unique approach to designing typefaces as containers for memory.

Incidentally, you should come see Nat speak here on November 14 »

The book debuts a new essay by Pyper, and includes contributions from others that offer vital perspectives on queer archival practices, language lineages, design as protest, and love as the basis for research. Part reader, part type specimen, part love letter, these typefaces foreground the politics of queer memory while opening up new avenues for writers, designers, and curious readers.