What is a typographic aficionado?

“We are type designers, punch cutters, wood cutters, type founders, compositors, printers, and bookbinders from conviction and with passion. Not because we are insufficiently talented for other, higher things, but because to us the highest things stand in the closest kinship to our own crafts.”
—Rudolf Koch

The members of The Society of Typographic Aficionados have any number of things in common, but one in particular—a passion for type and typography. As Koch so eloquently expressed it, “we are type designers, punch cutters, wood cutters, type founders, compositors, printers, and bookbinders.”

We are also graphic designers, new media artists, writers, typographers, calligraphers, sign painters, printers, software developers, illustrators, photographers. We are professionals and amateurs. We are students and teachers. We are historians and visionaries. We are all of these things, and more.

We create type. We use type. We appreciate type, and the related arts and technologies; all of those things which help us to communicate our thoughts, our feelings, our wants, our needs—and to understand those of our fellow man.

Please join us in our efforts to support the typographic arts and artists, and increase our educational programs. By joining SOTA, you will become part of an open community dedicated to achieving these goals and more. Your ideas and your vision are crucial to the advancement and strengthening of this community!