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Today in pulp I look back at the simple idea that launched a thousand fanzines: Letraset!
Launched in 1959 by Dai Davies and Fred Mackenzie it heralded a graphic design revolution that brought funky fonts to the masses.
Let's take a look... #fontsunday
Launched in 1959 by Dai Davies and Fred Mackenzie it heralded a graphic design revolution that brought funky fonts to the masses.
Let's take a look... #fontsunday
Davis and Mackenzie – both experienced designers – created Letraset as a cheaper alternative to phototypesetting, to help speed up the design process. From humble beginnings in an old factory behind Waterloo station Letraset eventually swept across the design world.
Letraset started life as a wet transfer system: you placed the letter into water, carefully slid off the transfer and tried to apply it to the paper without creasing it. Whilst fiddly it was still quicker than hand-painting your letters.
A recent #fontSunday topic of ‘bold headlines’ made me want to talk about bold letters a bit.
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I have been a fan of very bold letters for a long time. With the Lettermatic catalog, I think it has essentially been a self-imposed rule that all of our designs get taken to a very bold extreme. Because… it’s fun!
Not only are very bold letters eye-catching and powerful from an aesthetic perspective, I actually find they help my design process itself. I’ll explain…
This is hardcore.
What font should be on your book cover? Well if you've had it with Helvetica and you're tired of Times New Roman why not revive a classic pulp typeface or two?
Here's a list of some pulpy fonts that are fruitier than Frutiger and louder than DIN 1931... #FontSunday
Here's a list of some pulpy fonts that are fruitier than Frutiger and louder than DIN 1931... #FontSunday
Any pulp sci-fi writer must give serious consideration to using Amelia as their book cover typeface. Designed by Stan Davis in 1964 it's the font used on the Moon Boot and reminds people we haven't actually been to the Moon since 1972, so we really should try again!
If your story is about computers then use Computer Monotone! David Moore created this in 1968 as an alphabetical extension of the E-13B font used on the bottom of cheques. It smells of Fortran and tastes of 4 bit processing, just like a real computer should.
Along with the #FontSunday theme, we will be sharing a thread of mail-related graphics today. First up, a vintage Special Delivery 60¢ U.S. Postage Stamp.
In one of the stranger fashion collaborations of the decade, ubiquitous graphics from the @USPS were used by fast fashion retailer, Forever 21 in 2019. #FontSunday
Time for my occasional series "Why is Twitter so awful and what are we going to do about it?"
And today I'm trying to find out what Twitter is actually good for. Let's take a look... #fridaythoughts
And today I'm trying to find out what Twitter is actually good for. Let's take a look... #fridaythoughts
Twitter started as a microblogging site, and as blogs are familiar things we can hopefully work out how good Twitter is at this.
So what is a blog and what does it do? Well there are many flavours of blog out there...
So what is a blog and what does it do? Well there are many flavours of blog out there...
First there are the expert blogs: subject matter specialists sharing their insights about stuff they really know about. These blogs sea a kind of free punditry: people acting as if they had a newspaper column.
