"CUSTOM LETTERING OF THE 40S AND 50S"():Before the invention of Letraset, the sheets of dry-transfer letters that became popular with designers in the 1960s, custom headline lettering styles were frequently drawn by hand, creating a limitless field of innovative, creative, fanciful letters full of stylistic freedom and an energy unfettered by typographic traditions and templates.

Roundel

Decorative

Sans

Serif

Blackletter

Ecclesiastical

Quill pen

Hot and Cold

Ribbon

Representational

Plastic

Pigskin

Cogs

Rope

Wood

Fish

Togs

Feathers

Playbill 140

Wild West

Carnival

Ornate

Floral

Jewelled

Inline/outline

Foliage

Inset

Shadow

Decorated capitals

Framed

Copperplate Script

Decorated

Inline

Framed

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