Tone in Tongue Travels to Letterform Archive

Tone in Tongue (Letterform Archive)
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From Letters to Words to Dialogue: Building Collective Language with Radical Characters and Pararailing
Mary Y. Yang, Lead Designer of Under the Same Moon
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Exhibition | July 11–September 20, 2026Tone in Tongue Travels to Letterform Archive

Letterform Archive
San Francisco, CA

Curated and organized by Mary Y. Yang and Zhongkai Li

Tone in Tongue travels to Letterform Archive and is on view July 11–September 20, 2026. Letterform Archive is a non-profit center, library, and museum in San Francisco, California, that houses over 100,000 items dedicated to lettering, typography, calligraphy, and graphic design history spanning thousands of years. The Archive added the Common Tone risograph posters to its permanent collection.

I hosted a curator talk at Letterform Archive, offering an in-depth look at the exhibition’s concept and curatorial approach, and how Tone in Tongue brings together contemporary design studios, independent publishers, and emerging designers through multilingual typography and print — finding common ground across language, diasporic identity, and visual culture.