I started doing layout and paste-up for my mom who was a "Commercial Artist" after working for years as an animator at Hanna-Barbera. From there I never stopped, and was doing layout, illustration and design for school papers, posters and yearbooks through the seventies. I used countless sheets of Letraset type, did countless dropouts using amberlith and rubylith...and Good Lord, the fonts. The thing was, I was too young to know any history of fonts at all. I guess I knew the classics from the trendy, but I had no idea of the lively era that I was witnessing. Thanks for the retrospective, I remember it all better than I would have believed.