Wet Letters
Source Type · Shannon Ebner · 2022
A photographic typeface built from Shannon Ebner's wet letter alphabet images, released as both a usable font and an artist edition in collaboration with Source Type.
About
Each glyph is drawn directly from Ebner's photographs of wet letters, giving the typeface a material, indexical quality absent from virtually all digital type. The project originates from the broader STRAY WORLD collaboration with David Reinfurt and has appeared across exhibitions at kaufmann repetto and Altman Siegel between 2019 and 2025. Available in OTF and TTF formats, it sits at the boundary between fine art publication and functional typeface.
Classification
A typeface built entirely from photographs of physical wet letter forms, placing it firmly in the experimental/display category with no conventional typographic construction method.