http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/ It's a ragbag stuffed full of words and pictures - mainly about design, nature and nostalgia... Fri, 17 May 2013 06:32:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/#comment-5070 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:33:21 +0000 http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/?p=468#comment-5070 Thanks for the pingback!

]]> http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/#comment-5069 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:33:14 +0000 http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/?p=468#comment-5069 Thanks for the pingback!

]]> http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/#comment-5068 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:46:41 +0000 http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/?p=468#comment-5068 [...] The sample shown above is from the 1974 Letraset catalogue via The Squirrelbasket. [...]

]]> http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/#comment-5065 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:39:49 +0000 http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/?p=468#comment-5065 [...] The sample shown above is from the 1974 Letraset catalogue via The Squirrelbasket. [...]

]]> http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/#comment-4085 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:59:59 +0000 http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/?p=468#comment-4085 Excellent! I’m all for hand-drawn type.
Keep up the good work…
Best wishes

]]> http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/#comment-4068 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:59:45 +0000 http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/?p=468#comment-4068 I went to art college from 1977 to 1981 and still have a Letraset catalogue dated 1979. I work as a teaching assistant in a junior school and I still use the catalogue as reference for different typefaces when making headings for displays etc. I wouldn’t be without it!

]]> http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/#comment-3654 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:21:49 +0000 http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/?p=468#comment-3654 Btw–your blog here stirred up my late and latent hankering for Arnold Boecklin, Countdown, and Davida. Just bought from fonts.com [and started a "wish list" ]. Thanks!

]]> http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/#comment-3645 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:32:48 +0000 http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/?p=468#comment-3645 That shows great dedication! It is a lovely font, rather gothic, or am I meaning faerie?
I had a look on Word and there is nothing like it for “typing with” either – although Vivaldi is quite elegant, but without the curls.
For anyone who doesn’t know what Cardinal is like (and I didn’t myself), there’s a version here.
Good luck with your hunt, Virginia

]]> http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/#comment-3632 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:35:30 +0000 http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/?p=468#comment-3632 I’m still hunting for Letraset’s “Cardinal” in a TrueType version [or OpenType--I'm not picky]. I loved that type face in the 80s and I’ve loved it ever since. Mostly I’ve used it in glass engraving–photocopying the page from the 1980 catalog, cutting out the paper letters, photocopying again and finally transferring to a rubber stencil to cut out with an Xacto. Definitely not as precise as typesetting could be…but in glass work, it’s pretty impressive. Would love to be able to type with it! [MyFonts has a knockoff, which isn't too bad but the lines are not as "clean."]

]]> http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/design-icons-letraset/#comment-2495 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:22:54 +0000 http://squirrelbasket.wordpress.com/?p=468#comment-2495 Gosh, fascinating! I have now looked in my old Letraset catalogue and there it is – Fino. Hopefully you can see it if you click on that link.
Nice one, very elegant and slim…
Best wishes from the northern hemisphere

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