Sourcing old Letraset catalogues
I read in this months Grafik about Builds’ album cover for Flying Lotus in collaboration with Commonwealth and Timothy Saccenti. It explained the various methods of constructing the images used but what I found intriguing was the explanation of where the type came from. It says the type was custom drawn by Mr Place from an old letraset catalogue. It goes on to say that the typeface was Pinball.
I’m curious to find out more about old letraset and its uses today. Anybody know where I could get my hands on some of these?
19.Jul.2008 4.49pm
19.Jul.2008 4.52pm
They’re great. Any advice on where I can get the physical samples of old letraset catalogues?
19.Jul.2008 4.56pm
ebay? fleamarket?
19.Jul.2008 5.06pm
Found this maybe you might find it useful
http://www.sanskritweb.net/fontdocs/letraset.pdf
19.Jul.2008 5.08pm
That’s exactly the source of my image :-)
19.Jul.2008 5.11pm
No Way, Really?
19.Jul.2008 5.17pm
Only letraset catalogue I ever found online.
19.Jul.2008 5.26pm
Are there even many letraset typefaces yet to be digitized?
19.Jul.2008 11.48pm
http://www.myfonts.com/foundry/letraset/
http://www.letraset.com/
Also, check out this older thread:
http://www.typophile.com/node/21348
And this article:
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/letraset-as-aleph
20.Jul.2008 1.31am
Font forgeries of old Letraset fonts are sold by Canadatype (i.e. by Rebecca Alaccari and Patrick Griffin) and other font forging outfits.
If someone needs high-quality scans of old Letraset fonts such as this one
http://www.sanskritweb.net/temporary/goudy-fancy.tif
cf. http://www.fonthaus.com/products/fonts/view.cfm/sku/CT10129.cfm
in order to track down such forgeries as shown above, he may contact me.
For instance, in 2006 I analyzed the above forgery “Goudy Two Shoes” which turned out to be a font forgery of the Letraset font “Goudy Fancy”.
Rebecca Alaccari also forged fonts made by Gustav Jaeger whom I know:
see http://www.typophile.com/node/40705
!!! Warning !!!
Do NOT visit the Rebecca Alaccari website
http://www.canadatype.com
because this hacker website secretly installs spyware on your PC.
20.Jul.2008 5.00am
!!! Warning !!!
If you visit canadatype.com and see a screen just like this
http://www.sanskritweb.net/temporary/spyware.jpg
you should reformat your harddisk and reinstall your OS.
You may also read websites like this
http://www.removeonline.com/how-to-remove-scan-winspywareprotectscan-com...
but watch out, such sites may be spyware-infected too.
Stay away from the font forger site www.canadatype.com !!!
20.Jul.2008 9.57am
Hi smongey,
When “graphic designers” were using Letraset for design, scientists were using it to make charts and graphs &c. I know this because I am currently doing an interdisciplinary masters degree in typography and cognitive psychology. If there is a school with a science department close to where you live, just go there and ask to speak to old teachers/department heads. Start with the department receptionist, smile, ask her your honest story and if she could recommend which faculty memember she thinks would be most likely to have some old catalogues. Many will be pack-rats. You may find that some have not only catalogues, but hoards of Letraset as well. They will be far more likely to give it up as they aren’t nostalgic about it the way we are. I scored two catalogues the other day from my supervisor.
20.Jul.2008 10.35am
Thanks for the advice Christopher, I’ll give that a shot