Award-winning Ladyfingers Letterpress is a Queer and Trans-owned-and-operated stationery and gift brand based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, founded by designer+printmaker couple, Arley Torsone and Morgan Calderini.

We launched our business in 2010 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island when our own wedding invitation went viral and were faced with a wedding industry that wasn't prepared to work with a couple of creative Queers. While we suffered through both the aesthetic and LGBTQ+ injustices at the time, we realized there was a need for affirming stationers who gave a damn.

We quickly became very busy producing one-of-a-kind wedding invitations for the most creative and amazing clients. After the weddings were over, our clients came back and asked if we had any letterpress cards to celebrate holidays, birthdays, etc. As a result, we decided to launch a humble line of greeting cards at the 2013 National Stationery Show and to our surprise, the line took off and we now sell hundreds of products in over 1,000 stores around the world.

After a wildfire claimed the home of Morgan's family in Colorado, we decided to relocate our studio out west. In 2016 we opened our flagship store in Colorado Springs where we also host workshops and classes and offer a wide variety of boutique stationery and locally-made gifts. From this post we operate our letterpress and design headquarters while customers can see the presses running and witness our products being made. With a location in central downtown Colorado Springs, we find ourselves immersed in the arts and community: our two most favorite things!

In recent years, we have used our platform to promote women's, LGBTQ+, BIPOC and immigrant rights, using our "power of the press" to produce work that helps mobilize social movements.

We believe that you don't have to be a large company to make a big impact. We take pride in making things by hand, locally, and sustainably. If it's not made in our shop, you better believe we've done our best to research other environmentally-friendly and civically-minded businesses to collaborate with.

Ladyfingers Letterpress has been featured by The New York Times, Forbes, Grow With Google, Martha Stewart Weddings, Vogue and more, and is also the proud recipient of the 2015 Card of the Year as awarded by the Greeting Card Association.