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Pyper, Nat - A Queer Year of Love LettersA Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure Author: Nat Pyper Genre: Non Fiction, History, Graphic Design Pages: 120 Publisher: Inventory Press Release Date: October 28, 2025 Format: Paperback Size (in cm): 22. 9 (height) x 16. 6 (width) x 1. 2 (depth) ISBN: 9781941753798 Synopsis: This volume expands on the eponymous series of openly downloadable typeface fonts by New Yorkbased designer and alphabet artist Nat Pyper. The letterforms in
A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure
Author: Nat Pyper
Genre: Non Fiction, History, Graphic Design
Pages: 120
Publisher: Inventory Press
Release Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback
Size (in cm): 22.9 (height) x 16.6 (width) x 1.2 (depth)
ISBN: 9781941753798
Synopsis:
This volume expands on the eponymous series of openly downloadable typeface fonts by New York–based designer and alphabet artist Nat Pyper. The letterforms in this collection are each derived from the life stories, printed ephemera and vernacular scripts of a selection of countercultural queer figures, collectives and publications from recent decades. These include Robert Ford of THING magazine, the Chinese American painter Martin Wong, the Third World Gay Revolution collective and the Women's Car Repair Collective, among others.
The book showcases the biographies of these figures alongside previously unseen archival materials, as well as digital craft methodology for Pyper’s designs inspired by them. Connecting font design to queer culture, this project comes at a critical time of increasing erasure and suppression of trans and queer histories.
Rhode Island School of Design professor Paul Soulellis writes in his essay "What Is Queer Typography?" that "there is no queer typography, only queer acts of reading and writing." This book proposes a kind of compendium for that concept.
In addition to the essay from Soulellis, the book features contributions from Silas Munro, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Claire Finch, and others. Their essays offer emerging perspectives on queer archival practices, DIY lineages, design and politics, and love as the basis for research. This project challenges the field of graphic design―a field of signs, representations and meaning-making―to extend toward undervalued perspectives and overlooked pockets of visual and semiotic history.
LGBT Themes:
- Queer
- Queer History
Relevant Tags:
Non Fiction, History, Essays, Study, Graphic Design, Design, Typography, Queer, LGBT, Queer History
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