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The old drafting font templates. When I started engineering they still did some of the plans by hand, using these templates to write out the lettering with a p

• grapescheesee 5y ago
  Very sweet, I was wondering how it was implemented. The scriber image really makes the letters more into the artwork of the era.
  • jaclaz 5y ago
    In those times (and yes I am old enough to have actually used them) we used plainer normographs or lettering guides[0] where the ink pen was used directly inside the template. Before the advent of so-called isograph/rapidograph pens, we used those weird looking pens as depicted in the wikipedia article and you had to be very, very careful as it was very easy to inadvertedly ruin a drawing with ink coming out of the (open top) reservoir. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettering_guide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettering_guide