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  2. Channel letter - Wikipedia

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    A standard channel letter is a three-dimensional graphic sign element. Its channel is fabricated from sheet metal, most often aluminum since it will not rust. A flat sheet of aluminum is typically cut on a table by a computer-controlled router, laser, or water jet, based on a vector-based art file (.cdr, .eps, .ai, .scv, .sci, or .fs).

  3. Poly(methyl methacrylate) - Wikipedia

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    Sheets of PMMA are commonly used in the sign industry to make flat cut out letters in thicknesses typically varying from 3 to 25 millimeters (0.1 to 1.0 in). These letters may be used alone to represent a company's name and/or logo, or they may be a component of illuminated channel letters.

  4. Copperplate script - Wikipedia

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    An example of George Bickham's English Roundhand lettering and engraving ability. A copperplate script is a style of calligraphic writing most commonly associated with English Roundhand . Although often used as an umbrella term for various forms of pointed pen calligraphy, Copperplate most accurately refers to script styles represented in ...

  5. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United ...

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    an isolated hill with steep sides and a small flat ... [600] [601] [602] also letter ... a transparent thermoplastic sometimes called "acrylic glass" (UK: Perspex ...

  6. Spencerian script - Wikipedia

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    Spencerian script is a handwriting script style based on Copperplate script that was used in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1925, [1] [2] and was considered the American de facto standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the widespread adoption of the typewriter.

  7. Punchcutting - Wikipedia

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    The small letters at the base of the matrix are founders marks. Punchcutting is a craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type. [1] Steel punches in the shape of the letter would be used to stamp matrices into copper, which were locked into a mould shape to cast type.

  8. Writing material - Wikipedia

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    The gross characterization of writing materials is by the material constituting the writing surface (for example, paper) and the number, size, usage, and storage configuration of multiple surfaces (for example, paper sheets) into a single object. Writing materials are often paired with specific types of writing instruments.

  9. Teleprompter - Wikipedia

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    The script, in inch-high letters, was printed by a special electric typewriter on a paper scroll, which was advanced as the performer read, and the machines rented for the then-considerable sum of $30 per hour. [7] The teleprompter was used for the first time on December 4, 1950, in filming the CBS soap The First Hundred Years. [8]