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Tuesday 12pm - 6pm Wednesday 12pm - 6pm Thursday 12pm - 6pm Friday 12pm - 6pm Saturday 12pm - 6pm

Grapheme

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Grapheme is a letterpress studio and retail shop located in Seattle's Central District. Full class schedule on our website.

We offer regular Introduction to Letterpress Printing classes and press rentals once you've taken the class. We carry organizational and office products in-shop, as well as other paper products and stationery that encourage clarity, creativity, precision, and self-reflection. We look for clean design and attention to detail in all of our products, whether produced in-house or by our distributors worldwide, because we believe that smart design has the capacity to influence our mental space. Our letterpress and book arts workshops provide a structured way to focus and hone attention toward the creation of beautiful and functional objects that serve this mission. Contact us today for more information!

11/06/2026

We have a lot to be grateful for this month, the first of which is our 11TH ANNIVERSARY this weekend! 🥳 Stop by Saturday and Sunday 12-6 for grab bag giveaways (while supplies last), sweet treats, and 20% off store-wide. Can’t wait to see you! 🥰

07/13/2026

Heads up that U.S. postage prices went up today! Good news, though: our vintage stamp sets still have enough stamps to mail a first class letter (and they are prettier than most Forever stamps, too). 😘✔️

05/14/2026

Just added these risograph art prints by .c.blanchard to the shop, and they are speaking to me rn because 1) what a year so far 😳 and 2) we are celebrating the opening of the Madrona Farmers Market tomorrow with our annual sidewalk sale, and I am ready for some literal (as well as figurative) flourishing.
Come say hello tomorrow through Sunday and peruse our 50% off table and other great deals! Plus 10% off your entire purchase. Check us out inside if it’s raining! 🌧️

02/14/2026

However you celebrate this day (or don’t), I hope you feel loved. 💜

01/30/2026

Grapheme will be open today, Friday 1/30. However, in support of MN and what is variously being called the National General Strike and the National Day to Support Immigrants, we will be donating 50% of the day’s sales to and making additional individual donations as well.
If you happen to be in the neighborhood, we have free On Tyranny postcard sets available at the shop. Cash preferred otherwise whenever possible.

12/01/2025

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who came out over the weekend (or placed an order online) for Small Business [Weekend]. We definitely felt the love. 🥰
HOLIDAY HOURS: Tuesday-Sunday 12-6pm and 12-4 on Christmas Eve. We’ll be closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. ✨

11/04/2025

Come celebrate the 10th anniversary of Grapheme!! To mark ten years of business, we’ve made a 2026 tiny letterpress + vintage postage stamp calendar, and we’ll be giving away ten of them in the shop this week (two each day, this Wednesday-Sunday)! We’ll also have 25% off any purchase and a variety of other grab bag items and giveaways. It will be our biggest sale of the year! I’ll be there for the first half of most days, and Flora and Elise will be there to say hello if I’m not! Stop on by and help us celebrate! 🥰
Follow the link in bio ☝️ to see the entire calendar, each page of which can be cut down and repurposed as art prints to save or give away. (And use code MILESTONE10 for 25% off any online purchase through Sunday.)

07/03/2025

Happy July! This is the first year since the pandemic that our summer hours will not be changing, with the exception of a couple of days (closed tomorrow, the 4th of July). I’ll keep the shop hours updated here, as well as online. In the meantime, stop by to check out what’s new this summer—and to say hello. ✨😊

05/15/2025

Come celebrate the opening of the Madrona Farmers Market tomorrow—Friday, May 16th, 3-7pm—with the return of our annual SIDEWALK SALE! We’ve got our fingers crossed that the rain’ll hold off and we can set up outside, but even if it doesn’t we’ll still celebrate the return of local, seasonal fruits and vegetables (and flowers!) with a 50% off table, $5 prints—and more—and 10% off everything else in the store, all weekend long (Fri-Sun 12-6). 💐💌🥬

01/07/2025

Thank you, Australia, I needed that. 🌞

Address

2421 E Union Street
Seattle, WA
98122

Opening Hours

Tuesday	12pm - 6pm
Wednesday	12pm - 6pm
Thursday	12pm - 6pm
Friday	12pm - 6pm
Saturday	12pm - 6pm

Website

http://www.grapheme-seattle.com/

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