>One hardly ever sees them nowadays. Lettraset had a whole range of fonts, letters & numbers on like a grease-proof backing paper. You placed the letter you wanted face down on the paper and rubbed the back of it with a biro. The letter would transfer to the paper.
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>It was used for doing posh layouts, obviously in the days before WYSIWYG DTP systems. Type-writers, of course, were limited to one boring monospaced font.
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>They also had a range of, say, fancy shading, such as dots, hashing, etc. that could be used in art work.
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>As a kid we used to get these scenes (such as the surface of an alian planet) and rub down Lettraset spacemen, rockets and stuff, to make a picture.
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>Surely you had this in the USA?

We probably did. Perhaps when I was a child. But my memory is not what use to be. Well, I think isn't.

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>>Sorry this did spike your interest. But really, it didn't mine either. I thought it was just cool.
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>>What is a Lettraset? Never heard of it.
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>>>Most the fun in spirograph was the sensation of the tracing and seeing the pattern slowly come to life. This, I'm sorry, is no more interesting than a screen saver or Media Player's background patterns.
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>>>Now if there were a PC-based equiv of the old Lettraset transfer panaramas, complete with mouse scribble to press the chosen, dragged figures onto the background! ... :-)
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>>>>Do you remimber the Spirograph toy. Well here is one online.
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>>>>http://www.washington.edu/bibsys/mattf/nina/