Publisher: Esselte Letraset Ltd.
Publication: 1989, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, perfect-bound
Pages: 300
Size: 215 x 285
Text: English
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Contents:
- Type fonts, numerals, Bodytype, Word Positioning
- Rules Borders Symbols illustration sheets
- Architectural Symbols trees, people, vehicles, furniture, scales
- Letratone and Instantex dot tints, textures, patterns, mezzotints
- Letraline opaque, transparent, flexible, print production tapes
- Letrasign sheets, letters, coloured pictograms
- Graphic Design Software desktop layout, image manipulation
- PANTONE: Color Products
- Studio Products pads, boards, pens, adhesives, storage
- Airbrush Products airbrushes, inks, compressors, masking film
- Index subject index, cross reference
Letraset was a pioneering British company renowned for its dry-transfer lettering system, which revolutionised graphic design by making professional-quality typography accessible to amateurs, designers, and artists. Founded in 1959 in London, it democratised type creation in an era before desktop publishing, allowing users to rub down letters, symbols, and artwork from adhesive-backed sheets onto paper or other surfaces. The product's simplicity - using a burnishing tool like a pencil - sparked a DIY boom in posters, fanzines, signage, and layouts during the 1960s–1980s, embodying the era's countercultural and commercial creativity.
Condition: Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Rubbing, tanning and markings to cover/edges.
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