As I recall, Leslie said these were press-on letters. Or maybe it's called rub-on. Neither of those sound right. I've never seen press on lettering that had variation like that. They're very cool. Her white on black penmanship is very pretty, too. Combining the fine white line letters with the chunky colored letters is using another design principle - CONTRAST. Contrast is one of those tools in your design tool box that is actually easy - or obvious. It is still late afternoon - and this will not be a well written blurb. Sorry.
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This video might make up for the poorly written blurb.
No photo of this - it's a YouTube video - of some very old and very fascinating books. The most spectacular one is in the last 5 minutes. Many many layers of anatomical engravings. Mind boggling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWl8zj8Rsfg
The channel - Objectivity - might be connected with The Royal Society. I can't figure it out.
I found this blurb -- and it's a lovely rabbit hole if you enjoy these kinds of topics.
Objectivity is a series of videos about science treasures. In each video we uncover amazing objects and manuscripts from the archives, tell you their stories, and discuss them with experts.
Objectivity is one of Brady Haran's youtube channels. A majority of the videos are looking at objects held by the Royal Society (often from storage and not on regular display), but not all.
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