Wet Letters
Alphabet as art object
Wet Letters is a photographic typeface and artist edition produced by Shannon Ebner and Source Type, built from Ebner's Wet Letter alphabet photographs. Those images have appeared in gallery exhibitions including WET WORDS IN A HOT FIELD at Altman Siegel (2019), FRET SCAPES at kaufmann repetto (2022), and THE SEAWEED SYNTHESIZER at kaufmann repetto (2025). The typeface is part of the STRAY WORLD project, developed with David Reinfurt and published by Source Type in 2022.
Set in Wet Letters
Insights
- The source material—photographic letter images—has appeared across multiple gallery exhibitions spanning 2019 to 2025, connecting the typeface to an ongoing exhibition practice.
- Released as an artist edition, the project occupies a hybrid position between fine-art publication and functional typeface distribution.
- STRAY WORLD frames the typeface within a larger collaborative publishing project with David Reinfurt rather than as a standalone type release.
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