Normograph

Il normographer is a particular type of ruler, used for writing uniform charactersIt consists of a sheet of plastic or other material with letters of the alphabet or other useful shapes cut into it, particularly for technical drawing. 
By following the outline of the shapes with a pen, you can quickly and quite precisely obtain various letters and shapes. 
Particularly used until the mass diffusion of personal computers (and the relative ease of printing), it was an indispensable tool for architects and designers in general;

For dimensioning and describing projects, it was good practice to use the normograph to obtain well-written and uniform texts.

The normograph could also be used by illiterate or semi-literate people to learn to write or to write better; it is said that, to help people with writing difficulties, some politicians provided specific cardboard normographs with the sequence of characters of their surname, so that they could be traced on the ballot paper and the vote would not be lost.


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