Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:51:34 on Wed, 10
Feb 2021, Marland remarked:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:09:58 on Wed, 10
Feb 2021, Marland remarked:
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/1454601...fe-special-rep


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 ?

Yes, you could buy it in shops on the High Street. Anyone whose work
involved producing any kind of promotional material would be very
familiar with it.

Like I said ,certain spheres.
Most ordinary people were not in those back in that era and for want of a
better description� Middle Class� activities like that were less known to
those life was more blue collar , as for buying in shops on the high street
you could purchase all sorts of things from the diversity of traders that
existed in them then so it isn’t really that good a guide, most decent
towns had a Country Sports Shop but most ordinary people didn’t go and buy
a rifle.

Even the Sports Shop probably produced a printed price list, and most
likely that would have been made using Letraset. Which was available in
much less specialised outlets, like WH Smith.

Many premises had their price lists on a pegboard with those letters
usually white when new but weathered often by tobacco fumes to a dirty
brown that were pinned into the board.
Unlike Letraset the information could easily be altered rather than faffing
around rubbing dry printed letters afresh each time , more up market
premises just used the local one man band print shop for which that sort of
business was their bread and butter, the late BIL was one such after he
fell out
with the practices of Fleet Street . Had quite a nice little business until
the arrival of desk top publishing first in businesses and then homes
killed it.


GH