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Sol Designed Archive was created by Ricardo Santos (me). Texts are shared under a Public Domain CC0 license and the site's source code (excluding external libraries and plugins) is shared under a GPL v3 license.

The images of printed matter displayed at soldesignarchive.com were scanned from my personal collection and are shared purely for educational and research purposes only. Copyright and other rights of the designs, contents, texts, trademarks, illustrations, photography, etc., present in the works displayed belong to their respective owners.

For the majority of books and other printed matter, we share the cover, a few pages representative of the overall design language and choices (layout, typography, etc.), and pages containing relevant illustrations and photography.

If you are a copyright holder who believes your rights are infringed upon please reach out at hello@soldesignarchive.com.

Sol's logo, headlines, and some other stuff are set in Founders Grotesk and Founders Grotesk Condensed, a family designed by Kris Sowersby, and published by Klim Type Foundry in 2013. Body copy is set in Tiempos Text, also designed by Kris Sowersby, and published by Klim Type Foundry in 2010. Paratext and additional elements are set in Inter, designed by Rasmus Andersson, and published in 2017.

We’d love to take in all your old printed matter, but storage space is limited. If you have cool stuff that you think would find a good home at Sol please reach out with some photos, and we’ll go from there!

Most images are obtained by scanning the objects on a flatbed scanner. It’s a great way to get good quality, evenly lit images of printed matter. Things obviously get more complicated with larger formats, which is why, for now, most of the artifacts online are small-format stuff. If some anonymous benefactor would like to donate a large-format scanner, we’d looove one!