#drytransferlettering — Public Fediverse posts
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I had assumed Letraset pioneered dry transfer type (https://fontsinuse.com/tags/4507/dry-transfer-lettering) in 1961. They were certainly the most successful brand in the space.
But here’s Prestype, the New Jersey competitor, filing a trademark for “dry-ink transfer letters” in January 1960 (https://archive.org/details/officialgazette756unit/page/n855/mode/2up?q=prestype), getting press coverage for the product in March (https://archive.org/details/sim_modern-lithography_1960-03_28_3/mode/2up?q=prestype), and filing a patent in June (https://patents.google.com/patent/US3013917A/en?oq=3013917).
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Letraset Graphic Arts Products Catalog, Letraset USA, Inc., 1973. The cover features Stripes https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/39223/stripes, a typeface designed by Tony Wenman specifically for the dry-transfer medium.
@marksimonson comments, “I love how [Wenman] was aiming at a design that took advantage of the ‘instant sheet medium’. In the examples they show how you can just rub down some of the lines to get different effects.”
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