Ah, the days of Letraset & Chartpak!

I was manually laying out magazine spreads using galley type from the typesetters over the road and hand bordering halftones made with the repro camera with a Rotring and masking out with Rubylith and a scalpel when I started...

As a Mechanical Draughtsman of thirty years, I started on the drawing board and then the Co migrated to AutoCad. We still have a drawing board in the office, I have threatened to set it up with a drawing sheet and get the apprentices practicing their printing on it 1/2

My first layout job combined some hand drawn stuff with printed typefaces on the single Mac in the office back in the early 90s. I do still shudder at trying to manually kern Letraset. Their catalogue was one of my favourite reads!

As a kid, I used to love playing with our huge collection of scratch-off Letraset typefaces that my Dad had collected. Everything about them was a joy - except for actually needing them for something productive.