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Month: February 2023

Design Life | Knowledge and skills

The art of cobbling characters

28th February, 2023 by Lydia Thornley

Before software did the hard work of visualising typography, we had Letraset – sheets of dry transfer lettering. We’d run out of the most-used letters so we would cobble together characters from what we had. And when I did my first Nerd Nite London talk, on ampersands, I asked letter cutter … Read More

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