Sunday, August 1, 2021

Letraset heaven

 Who ever really knows how things come about? How this leads to that and then...? 

And so it is with this letraset find.

I was reading about letraset which made me smile and remember how much fun it was.  I recalled I had some in the studio a friend had gifted me; and also that I had tried to purchase some modern equivalents recently.

I then went off on a google and found some for sale in Australia.  I really liked the used look it and lo and behold I was able to buy it and send it home. 

Isn't it gorgeous? What a stash!


So many lovelies.


As I look t it, I wonder which words have been printed using it? All the Cs and Ps are gone...

Some nice variations on the b and the g and some lovely ligatures - that ct is gorgeous!


I feel as if I am reading absences.


I quite like the tail of the R here; and that fractured T. And the way that part of one R is already detaching itself.


Lots of little ones too!


And this font reminds me of Hobo?


Bu this I really love - the marks left behind by rubbing off the letters. This is exactly what mine used to look like as a kid. What I would have called a blue biro rubbing it off!



I lie in bed at night dreaming of what these can become... so exciting!

4 comments:

  1. There are some very familiar type styles there. I worked with Letraset in the 1970s - and probably still have a sheet or two of it in my studio.

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    1. It was such a great thing in the 70s Jen! I'd be interested if you no longer needed yours...happy to chat!

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  2. missing Cs and Ps ... hmmmm, couldn't help thinking of CCCP ... the Russian abbreviation for the old USSR

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    1. Oh I love how your brain works! How cool is that the CCCP? Maybe the original owner was a spy!!!

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