TEXT-TO-SPEECH: NAT PYPER

<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1115592203?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" title="Text-to-Speech: Nat Pyper"></iframe></div> <p><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script></p> <h1>NAT PYPER</h1> <h2>Thursday, May 8, 2025, 17:30–19:00 BST/12:30–14:00 EDT</h2> <p>Nat Pyper is an alphabet artist. Their practice of fonts, video, performance, and writing extends across ongoing research into queer publishing histories. Their book <a href="https://www.librarystack.org/a-queer-year-of-love-letters-alphabets-against-erasure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure</a>, will soon come out as an eBook with Library Stack and in print with Inventory Press in Los Angeles, who did the book’s design. The book is a compendium of material supporting a long-running <a href="https://www.librarystack.org/a-queer-year-of-love-letters">font design project of the same name</a>, which features 12 custom fonts, each one in honor of some under-sung countercultural queer figure from recent decades. The book is both a suite of design writing and an expanded type specimen for the whole series. It features new writing by Paul Soulellis, Silas Munro, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Claire Star Finch, a new essay by Pyper, and a long conversation between the designer Rosen Eveleigh and the Canadian artist G. B. Jones, who’s one of the figures featured in the font series.</p>