{"id":460,"date":"2009-01-29T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T21:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2009-07-31T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:28:50","slug":"kroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/460","title":{"rendered":"Kroy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I used to use ‘The Kroy Machine’ for the Monday Morning Blues<\/em>. <\/p>\n

The Blues<\/em> was a college zine. I was editor and designer. We had no Macintosh, only an old Apple II with a basic word processing program hooked up to an inky typewriter-like dot matrix printer. Most articles were typed on an actual typewriter because that was sometimes easier.<\/p>\n

The Kroy was a lot like a large Dymo labeller. And it was a BITCH to work with, the kerning sucked (the dial on the bottom was for kerning\/tracking, but you couldn’t easily see what you were doing), the letters jumped around a lot – the gum on the labels was very sticky\/not repositionable. But you could make little headlines on transparent tape – and it was a huge step up from rub off lettering.<\/p>\n

Learned to hate the Souvenir and Stymie fonts while using that thing. Cooper, LOTS of Cooper Black<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Here’s more info about this particular machine<\/a>, via our design studio uses only the finest state of the art technology.<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t

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