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Strange Quark

#Letraset dry-transfer lettering was obsoleted by desktop publishing, but as Letraset owned the rights to the fonts they had created, they digitised them and many of their iconic #fonts are still in widespread use.

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Fonts In UseLetrasetFounded in London in 1959. Pioneer of dry transfer lettering in 1961, Letraset created many original typeface designs which were later licensed to other foundries and digitized. Founded TSI Typographic Systems International (TSI) in 1979 to license Letraset exclusives to other manufacturers. Esselte acquired Letraset in the early 1980s, and ITC in 1985. Fom 1995, Letraset issued digital typefaces via the Fontek label [Daines 2016]. After Esselte sold Letraset to a management buyout in 2000, it was sold to ColArt in 2012, becoming part of its subsidiary Winsor & Newton. See Uses about Letraset.
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Strange Quark

Just thinking about this has made me feel all nostalgic about #Letraset. I created many DIY documents with Letraset back in the day, but they were all consigned to the dustbin long ago.

Letraset gave me my first introduction to #fonts and #typeography. I remember standing in the stationer's looking at all the different fonts on offer and carefully deciding which ones I would spend my pocket money on.

Several sheets of Letraset dry-transfer letters
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Strange Quark

I'm gradually working my way through the recordings from the #DCC creator summit. I just watched the seminar on #layout for #TTRPGs. It prompted me to think of how my own experience with layout developed.

The first #RPG thing I laid out was an attempt at a zine that I made as a teenager. This was in the days before desktop publishing was a thing. I used my mum's #typewriter to write the text and physically cut and pasted the columns onto a page, with rub-on #Letraset transfers for the headings.

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David JONES

Oh, guess which british female type designer doesn't have a Wikipedia page? Freda Sack. *sigh*

I don't have the energy to create one right now. It's like half a day to make a decent page, and then it'll get deleted immediately as not-notable.

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Letterform Archive

A catalog designed for an exhibition that ran in Darmstadt, München, and Zürich in 1978–79, Typographie: Schrift und Graphik mit Letraset (1978) features the work of the catalog’s designer, Christof Gassner, as well as dozens of other artists and designers using Letraset.

For a closer look at select images and typefaces from this book, check out @FontsInUse: fontsinuse.com/uses/5433/typog

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Letterform Archive

Letraset Graphic Arts Products Catalog, Letraset USA, Inc., 1973. The cover features Stripes fontsinuse.com/typefaces/39223, a typeface designed by Tony Wenman specifically for the dry-transfer medium.

@marksimonson comments, “I love how [Wenman] was aiming at a design that took advantage of the ‘instant sheet medium’. In the examples they show how you can just rub down some of the lines to get different effects.”

The letters R and A in a 8-line geometric, concentric style are connected and colored in red, white, and blue on Black.
A full view of the cover featuring the previous detail image. “LETRASET USA” is set in the striped type style. “Graphic Art Products Catalog” and Letraset usa” are also printed on the cover.
Interior page of the catalog featuring Stripes, the headline “FOR LOVERS OF TYPE”, and a monochrome photo of Tony Wenman, a man with dark, shoulder-length hair and glasses.
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