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Funyn stuff. I love these Letraset sheets and I’ve been mean­ing to col­lect a bunch of them. I found a Lubalin Graph set in Europe that I have to buy. Ebay is usu­ally loaded with these as well.

Antonio
April 14th, 2008 at 21:25 pm

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Nice to see you back. Don’t take it as an offence, please, but I have always won­dered why so many design­ers make text on their web page so small that it is really dif­fi­cult to read.

Same story in your page again. It actu­ally hurts my eyes to read body text, hon­est. Why?

Sven
April 14th, 2008 at 22:19 pm

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@Sven -

There’s a Fire­Fox exten­sion called nosquint — It saves your font size pref­er­ences per site. After read­ing your com­ment, I had a glance at the info bar at the bot­tom of my Fire­Fox win­dow, and low and behold — I read spiekermann.com at 110%.

Colin
April 14th, 2008 at 22:30 pm

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Ctrl+ Sven.

James
April 14th, 2008 at 23:53 pm

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Ah, Letraset. Reminds me of wan­der­ing around Ryman (big sta­tionery store) when I was young, check­ing out all the type­sets and graphic pens. Shortly after that, I dis­cov­ered computers…

@James: Ctrl + Sven? But I don’t have a Sven key

Olly
April 15th, 2008 at 15:39 pm

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aha­hahha

Flat­tery may come in the most unusual ways.

Here in southamer­ica we take each oth­ers eyes for a cou­ple of lestrasets. Yes­ter­day i saw a designer stab another with an old rotring for a sheet of Stem­pel Garamond.

Roberto Bernasconi
April 15th, 2008 at 16:09 pm

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Threw it away?! I love Letraset, and I am almost out of it. It is great for col­lages! When I lived in Prov­i­dence, RI, I had an inex­pen­sive and deep sup­ply of it from a dieing art sup­ply store that had been stuck in a base­ment down­town. Basi­cally, if I could find some­thing worth buy­ing down there I could almost name my price. He had draw­ers and draw­ers of Letraset! Oh to be back there today…

Able Parris
April 15th, 2008 at 17:01 pm

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i know about zoom fea­ture, i use fire­fox 3 beta, which even does full page zoom. but that makes images blurry and raises the issue even more: why not make text leg­i­ble in the first place!?

read­ing from com­ments it seems that there are other peo­ple with same prob­lem as well.

Sven
April 15th, 2008 at 18:56 pm

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“9 pt on a new Mac­BookAir looks tiny but sharp,
while on an old PC could be mas­sive and blurry”

Agreed, but i think major sites have scripts run­ning which detect your screen res­o­lu­tion and are capa­ble of load­ing a seper­ate web­site design for a par­tic­u­lar screen.

i think

art
April 16th, 2008 at 02:34 am

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As I don’t have any vision prob­lems, I can read it fine. I like small text in web­sites, as well in other sup­ports, because it nor­mally makes the text spot more uni­form and fit­ting to the com­po­si­tion. If I ever have a prob­lem with read­ing it, I use apple+ to increase text size and WILL NOT bug the designer with it.

Pedro Gonçalves
April 16th, 2008 at 10:10 am

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It’s funny, it’s always the gen­er­a­tion who have man­aged to wres­tle free from some obso­lete tech­nol­ogy who then dis­card its rem­nants with plea­sure and relief. A few cling on out of nos­tal­gia, and then the next gen­er­a­tion (who maybe only toyed with it as chil­dren) cher­ishes it for its very spe­cific qualities.

It was like that with Volk­swa­gens, Com­modore 64’s, type­writ­ers, vinyl records, formica, and i feel it’s start­ing to emerge for audio and VHS cas­settes. My advice: never throw any­thing away

Toon
April 17th, 2008 at 16:26 pm

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Hello i was won­der­ing if antbody could give me some advice, i have two wooden letter-press design sys­tem stor­age cases 18 draw­ers each full of old Letraset
that i aquired about 10 years ago does any­body know the best place or way to sell these as ive no need for them but could imag­ine there must be col­lec­tors some­where
thanks

laura lee
August 27th, 2008 at 16:56 pm