[california-og]

Yes, I agree. Thank you for the advice and leads, much appreciated! I will dig into these. The archive is scoped to letterpress only, so that will automatically skew it more towards latin based typographic cultures, but I would like to find more non Latin stuff, especially Arabic. Haven't yet found very good archives for that though.

Some Japanese letterpress works I already have catalogued, and they're amazing:

https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?filters=japan

A recent blogpost by Jacob Filipp has good info on it:

https://jacobfilipp.com/hana-no-shiori/

Unfortunately the Japanese archives that I've found have mostly poor quality microfilms though, which makes further search a bit unmotivating.

[jfil]

I was going to reach out and share the Japanese type art of the Grand Opera House, but looks like you already found my site :-)

Also check out RTTY art (radio teletype) http://taipeisignalarmy.blogspot.com/2010/09/teletype-art.ht... And Stigmatypie (moving type art, with mostly periods) https://stewf.tumblr.com/post/81162862081/stigmatypie-19th-c...

[contingencies]

Check London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) library too. https://www.soas.ac.uk/soas-library/special-collections