On 10/02/2021 10:09, Marland wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:51:03 on Tue, 9 Feb 2021,
Recliner remarked:
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 09/02/2021 13:49, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:58:43 on Tue, 9 Feb 2021,
Graeme Wall remarked:
On 09/02/2021 11:11, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:51:33 on Tue, 9 Feb
2021,Â* Basil Jet remarked:

Â*One of the numerous sans serif typefaces, but definitely not
Johnston.

Â*I was a little surprised that "Sans Serif" as an April Fool, was the
lowest scoring one in yesterday's "Pointless", despite the really
heavyÂ* hints in the question about lower/upper case.

Where did the spaghetti harvest come?

Much higher (which surprised me because it was significantly earlier).

Circa 1957 IIRC whereas San Serif was in the 1970s.


Yes, 1977:
https://static.guim.co.uk/ni/1454601868089/San-Serriffe-special-report.pdf

Of course, in that era before desktop publishing, few ordinary people knew
much about fonts, let alone about sans-serif font families.

You've forgotten about Letraset?

Did many people that would come under the heading of ordinary really know
about that product ?
It was useful in certain spheres such as model making or labels for control
panes etc especially prototype production,

Television companies were major customers, until the advent of computer
generated lettering in the mid 1970s, virtually all on-screen captions
were done with Letraset. A major exception was for the horse racing
results captions as Letraset was too slow, they were hand painted (not
written!) on 12" x 9" black card.


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Graeme Wall
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