Together, they created custom digital fonts for the comic industry. Soon there after, comic book letterer Richard Starkings, with partner John Roshell, started a company called Comicraft. Desktop publishing was born and crafts people, some with a career in typesetting spanning over 20+ were forced into retirement or had to find other work. Large and small typesetting house’s that served the advertising community had been made obsolete in a matter of a few years. You can read more about it here and here.Ībout 25+ years ago, and with the introduction of a high resolution laser printer from Apple, Adobe’s Postscript fonts started becoming widely adopted. Some people waited up to 3 hours in a line that went around the block for an opportunity to pick up a small part of their history. Hand lettering is fast becoming a lost art so I was delighted by the response. Aside from their long history, the remarkable thing about Honest Ed’s is not the goods that they carry but all their in store POP (point of purchase) signage, which are all hand rendered… even today!Įarlier this year, they decided to sell their signs with proceeds being donated to charity. Sadly, they announced their closure in 2016. They’ve been open since 1948 and over the years they’ve become an iconic symbol of our city. Honest Ed’s is local discount department store here in Toronto.
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