Artype Inc. was a Chicago-based manufacturer of dry transfer
lettering products. Trademarked
in Aug. 1946. A
Tenth Anniversary Catalog was issued in 1955. Their
Trans-Artype brand was
registered in 1965.
“Beginning in December, 1944, [Artype] has made and sold a
transparent acetate sheet, containing about 800 different samples
of letters of the alphabet, numbers and various symbols in
different sizes and types. It attempts to offer virtually all
possible forms of words, letters, diagrams and signs that may be
used in preparing advertising matter. The buyer cuts from the sheet
such letters or symbols as he may wish and makes his copy out of
them, pasting them on to a More…
Artype Inc. was a Chicago-based manufacturer of dry transfer lettering products. Trademarked in Aug. 1946. A Tenth Anniversary Catalog was issued in 1955. Their Trans-Artype brand was registered in 1965.
“Beginning in December, 1944, [Artype] has made and sold a transparent acetate sheet, containing about 800 different samples of letters of the alphabet, numbers and various symbols in different sizes and types. It attempts to offer virtually all possible forms of words, letters, diagrams and signs that may be used in preparing advertising matter. The buyer cuts from the sheet such letters or symbols as he may wish and makes his copy out of them, pasting them on to a sheet of his own by means of an adhesive on the back of the acetate sheet. When the copy is complete, he photographs it and reproduces it in quantity by any one of a number of well-known methods.” [1956 court case]
