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Wet Letters is a photographic typeface/artist edition produced by Shannon Ebner and Source Type. The font uses Ebner’s Wet Letter alphabet images which have been a part of various works and exhibitions including THE SEAWEED SYNTHESIZER at kaufmann repetto, New York (2025), FRET SCAPES at kaufmann repetto, New York (2022) and WET WORDS IN A HOT FIELD at Atlman Siegel (2019). Wet Letters is a pioneer in the niche genre of photographic alphabets, and is a part of the project STRAY WORLD by Shannon Ebner in collaboration with David Reinfurt published by Source Type in 2022. Purchase the font/artist edition or a copy of the typeface from the Source Type Store.
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Process documentation of Wet Letter photographs, Shannon Ebner (2017)
Type Specimen
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Encoding:Latin Extended
File Formats:OTF, TTF
Version:1.0
Language Support
Asu, Bemba, Bena, Cebuano, Chiga, Cornish, English, Gusii, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Jju, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Lojban, Luo, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malay, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Nyankole, Oromo, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sangu, Shambala, Shona, Soga, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Swahili, Swati, Taita, Taroko, Teso, Tsonga, Vunjo, Wolastoqey, Xhosa, Zulu
