Typophile

Sourcing old Letraset catalogues

smongey

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?

Jan Erdmann

smongey

They're great. Any advice on where I can get the physical samples of old letraset catalogues?

Jan Erdmann

ebay? fleamarket?

smongey

Found this maybe you might find it useful

http://www.sanskritweb.net/fontdocs/letraset.pdf

Jan Erdmann

That’s exactly the source of my image :-)

smongey

No Way, Really?

Jan Erdmann

Only letraset catalogue I ever found online.

smongey

Are there even many letraset typefaces yet to be digitized?

Ricardo Cordoba

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

Uli Stiehl

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.

Uli Stiehl

!!! 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 !!!

Christopher Tim...

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.

smongey

Thanks for the advice Christopher, I'll give that a shot

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