Some facts:
In the year of 2015 Letraset announced that they would discontinue the line of Flexmarker and tria marker. Promarker rebranded to Winsor and Newton.
- Earlier called Pantone triamarker
- produced promarker, Flexmarker and triamarker
- Triamarker has three nibs,(an ultrafine or a bullet nib, a brushnib and a chisel nib) Promarker had the option of three nibs ( a chisel nib and a bullet bis and a ultrafine nib as a option) and Flexmarker had two nibs (a brush nib and a chisel nib).
- Letraset was founded
in London 1959
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Left: Triamarker, middle: Flexmarker and last Promarker |
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Metallic marker, ink and cartridges |
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Letrasets case |
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The older Tria Pantone. |
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Old tria case |
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Tria set of 24 |
The ink however, is the
best ink of all art markers in my opinion. It doesn´t become grainy but still keep the
colors alive, vibrant, rich and they blend perfect. They also have a lot of
skin colors, and more important the skin colors look very different from each
other. Among the skin colors you will find a more greyish skin color that
actually looks closer to a Scandinavian skin then the usually more yellowish
skin colors (which they also have).
Now some of the colors lives on in Winsor and Newton promarker and Brushmarker (and it is the same quality ink), but a lot of wonderful colors are gone. Here are some of the colors that I will miss the most:
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Letraset has the most
complete color system (HSL) of all brands. You can see the color family (its represent
by a letter), you have a number telling you the hue of the color, for an
example a yellow can be draw to orange or to green, the higher the number the
more green the yellow color will be and the lower the number the more orange
the color will be. If the color has the number 5 (which is in the middle) it is
the most pure yellow you can get. Next number will tell you how clean the color
is. If it is a high number it means it is a very clear (saturated) color and if
it is a low number it means it is more greyish. The last digit tells you if it
is light or dark. Flexmarker also have names on their colors.
Letraset’s grey colors
are a bit messy to understand. They have different names depending on what
marker you choose, so if you use Flexmarker or Triamarker you have
too keep that in mind. But if you look closely on the barrel on you Flexmarker you will find a “translation” to the “Triamarker world”.
The best thing with
the greys (in my opinion) is that it doesn't become to dark to soon. Only the
two last numbers becomes really dark (in Triamarker system the darkest grey is
called nr 1 and 2 and in Flexmarker the darkest grey is nr 5).
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Drawing made with Triamarkers |
Letraset use to have a cartridge system to refill all there 300 colors and ink to refill 100 of them. They used to have 300 colors to choose between (and even more if you counted flexmarkers and promarker colors that wasn´t included in the tria system). They also use to have a lot of different replacement nibs.
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Drawing made with Triamarker |
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Cat drawn with Triamarker
on Letrasets paper |
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Drawing |