Philip Mountford
SellaTheChemistDoes anyone remember Letraset, the scratch and print sheets that could be used to apply professional lettering to sheets of paper? They were part of the pain of writing a scientific thesis before the arrival of the Macintosh and the democratization of (admittedly often second-rate) graphic design.
anyway it's some pre-Christmas #ClassicKit
Jim Easterbrook@sellathechemist I found some at the bottom of a box I was clearing out a few weeks ago.
🇨🇦 TRH 🇨🇦@sellathechemist I still have my templates and drafting pens, and it's still quicker than learning autocad 🤣
Dr Susi Arnott@sellathechemist What a great Christmas Special Classic Kit!
Least favourite was Letraset shading for column graphs - but I loved the outline thing for drawing flasks and tubes and stuff:)
Mind you, my first few films had titles and credits laid out in letraset. Oddly calming process, once you'd found the right font
#biofilm
Least favourite was Letraset shading for column graphs - but I loved the outline thing for drawing flasks and tubes and stuff:)
Mind you, my first few films had titles and credits laid out in letraset. Oddly calming process, once you'd found the right font
#biofilm
Michael Katzmann🐈@sellathechemist Reminds me of how I used to layout printed circuit boards. There was 'Bishop Graphic' tape and shapes (for say transistor pads and ICs). This was put onto Mylar and photographically reduced in size for the photo mask. For dual sided boards you used red and blue translucence tape so that filters could separate them for the two masks.
I don't miss those days ... KiCAD is a dream!
I don't miss those days ... KiCAD is a dream!
Solar🌄Garden@vk2bea @sellathechemist ...and of course circuit symbols for drawing-up your publication-quality circuit diagrams; the challenge then being to get your pen-lines, on graphic film, so neat you couldn't tell what was drawn and what was transferred. Disappointed to find there are no circuit-diagram component emojis!
I do miss all that. Leafing through racks of the stuff in graphic design shops and hooting at finding a great new font or symbol sheet... oh, and starting even as a child, with the technique, basic small sheets in the stationers shop or free inside magazines....
Stumpy The Mutt@wavesculptor @vk2bea @sellathechemist I still love the way Heathkit used to draw their schematics. Clean, uncluttered and very easy to follow.
Kristine Willis@sellathechemist I LOVE letraset!
John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴🧡✊🏻✊🏿@sellathechemist Yes! Even in the early 1990s all geology departments had drawing offices with wonderfully skilled drafting/drawing technicians who would produce lovely maps and diagrams on plastic film for publication. Lettering was mostly Letraset. PhD students were trained to do this too. I was useless 😁.
Colin Dunn@sellathechemist Yup. I still have a proper Letraset burnishing tool in my desk drawer 👍😁
@Indyposterboy Fab!! Can I see a photo???
@Indyposterboy Letraspudger, innit.
Steve GisselbrechtIf I'm not misremembering, all the figure labeling in this paper was Letraset!
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@sellathechemist I applied for a graphic design job at what was then the Forestey Commission where one of the tests was to lay out a sentence of text neatly between lines using Letraset. I didn't get the job as my letrasetting was perfect and I was overqualified 🤪
@Indyposterboy You can't make the bosses look bad, can you?