Lettering guide

2.5 to 7mm lettering guides for technical drawings

Lettering pens for lettering guide template

A lettering guide template is a special type of template, used to write uniform characters in a drawing nameplate. It consists of a sheet of plastic or other material with carved alphabet letters and other shapes used especially for creating technical drawings. During decades they have been essential for lettering a drawing nameplate so text and other forms could be obtained quickly and fairly uniform.

Although they have been superseded by the use of computers, as mentioned above, during the most part of the last century they have been used to relatively ease the lettering process in the creation of technical drawings. They were an indispensable tool for architects and technical illustrators in general, for labeling their drawings and plans but also the description of projects, in which was good practice to use a lettering template to achieve a uniform and well-written text.

A lettering template could also be used by people illiterate or semi-illiterate to learn to type or improve their handwriting. In order to help people with writing difficulties, some politicians, like Bettino Craxi have used them in the course of political history, they distributed specific lettering cardboard templates with the sequence of characters of their last name, so they could be easily written during the voting^[1] process.

See also

• Graphic design

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