Read the book, Typographic Firsts
Somewhere, squirreled away in almost every pre-digital graphic designer's flat files near to the old rubber cement remover and the hand-roller used for flattening out galleys, under the piles of rubylith, a box of ruling tape and a T-square from the ancient paste-up days, is a small collection of dry transfer type sheets (also known as press type). For those who were unborn or infants during the sixties and early seventies when phototype was sometimes too expensive, transfer letters, which came in many styles and weights, were the go-to substitute.
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