Letterers go gaga over Speedball ephemera. It may touch a DIY chord. Or it’s perhaps the most primal way of creating commercial lettering that piques the passion of folks like me. I’ve run a few DH columns on Speedball aesthetics (here and here) and so has J.J. Sedelmaier. We all say the same thing: “I once found a set of Speedball pen nibs as a kid.” Anyone, like me, who fancied themselves or wanted to be a letterer got hold of some Speedball nibs, a textbook, some paper and
