LANCE FIELD GUIDE

Carry the Tools Designers Choose with Confidence

Lance gives retailers a coherent system of purpose-designed rulers, clear product-family logic, exact product identity, and tools that help customers select the right instrument.

LANCE INSTRUMENT INTELLIGENCE

Carry the Tools Designers Choose with Confidence

Lance gives retailers a coherent system of purpose-designed rulers, clear product-family logic, exact product identity, and tools that help customers select the right instrument.

Carry the Tools Designers Choose with Confidence

Lance gives retailers a coherent system of purpose-designed rulers, clear product-family logic, exact product identity, and tools that help customers select the right instrument.

Make the choice in sequence

Which customer and retailer type will the assortment serve?

Define the retailer's customer and use case first: design students, patternmakers, drafters, artists, makers, technical teams, or a broader creative assortment.

Which family should anchor the opening assortment?

Anchor the opening assortment in one or more coherent families, then add specialist tools that extend the same customer workflow. Do not select only by price or apparent popularity.

What content, display, staff education, and replenishment support are required?

A retail launch should include exact SKU and UPC identity, product-family signage, a visible selection guide, staff education, approved imagery, live availability, and a replenishment path.

Relevant Lance families

Compare the instruments

Heavy-Duty Drafting Stainless Steel T-Square

A configured T-square family whose material, head construction, calibration, and physical specifications remain blocked pending first-party verification.

6 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Heavy-Duty Aluminum T-Square

Heavy-duty T-squares use a 2-inch-wide aluminum blade and a 16-inch green ABS head.

7 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Standard Aluminum T-Square

Standard T-squares use a 1.5-inch-wide aluminum blade and a 9-inch blue ABS head.

6 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
30°/60°/90° Template Triangle Ruler

The family uses 30/60/90-degree geometry, one-sixteenth-inch calibration on one edge and one side, and 20 or 26 circular template holes depending on size.

4 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
45°/45°/90° Template Triangle Ruler

The family uses 45/45/90-degree geometry, one-sixteenth-inch calibration on one edge and one side, and 20 or 26 circular template holes depending on size.

4 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
English/Metric Aluminum Straight Edge Ruler

English/metric straight edges place millimeters-to-centimeters on the top edge and inches in sixteenths on the bottom edge, on one side.

7 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Metric Aluminum Straight Edge Ruler

Metric straight edges are calibrated on two edges on one side, with millimeters-to-centimeters on the top edge and centimeters on the bottom edge.

4 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Aluminum Straight Edge Ruler — Inch

Inch straight edges are calibrated on two edges on one side, normally in eighths and sixteenths.

11 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Cork-Backed Aluminum Inking Ruler

Cork-backed inking rulers are calibrated on two edges on one side in eighths and sixteenths.

8 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Aluminum French Curve Ruler

French curves are calibrated on one edge on both sides.

4 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Aluminum Hip Curve Ruler

Hip curves are calibrated on one edge on both sides.

2 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Aluminum L-Square

Standard L-squares are calibrated in inches or centimeters; each arm is calibrated on two edges on one side and one edge on the reverse.

4 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Half-Scale Aluminum L-Square

Half-size L-squares are half scale versions of standard L-squares and are calibrated on one edge on two sides.

2 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Aluminum Cuff Ruler

Cuff rulers are used to mark trouser cuffs of different lengths and widths.

5 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Aluminum Center-Finding Ruler

A zero point sits at the center of the top edge with equal measurements left and right in thirty-seconds; the bottom edge is a standard rule in sixteenths.

6 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Aluminum Agate/Pica Ruler

Agate/Pica rules are intended for layout of printed material and are calibrated on two edges on both sides.

3 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Black Anodized English/Metric Ruler

Black E-Metric rulers are black anodized hardened aluminum, 0.090 inch thick and 1 inch wide, with silver calibrations.

5 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Black Anodized Left-to-Right Bottom Edge Rule

Black engraved rulers are black anodized hardened aluminum, 0.090 inch thick and 1 inch wide, with silver calibrations.

8 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Black Anodized Left-to-Right Top Edge Rule

Black engraved rulers are black anodized hardened aluminum, 0.090 inch thick and 1 inch wide, with silver calibrations.

8 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Black Anodized Right-to-Left Bottom Edge Rule

Black engraved rulers are black anodized hardened aluminum, 0.090 inch thick and 1 inch wide, with silver calibrations.

8 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Black Anodized Right-to-Left Top Edge Rule

Black engraved rulers are black anodized hardened aluminum, 0.090 inch thick and 1 inch wide, with silver calibrations.

8 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Black Metric Left-to-Right Bottom Edge Rule

Black metric rulers are black anodized hardened aluminum, 0.090 inch thick and 1 inch wide, with silver calibrations.

4 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Black Metric Left-to-Right Top Edge Rule

Black metric rulers are black anodized hardened aluminum, 0.090 inch thick and 1 inch wide, with silver calibrations.

4 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Black Metric Right-to-Left Bottom Edge Rule

Black metric rulers are black anodized hardened aluminum, 0.090 inch thick and 1 inch wide, with silver calibrations.

4 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →
Black Metric Right-to-Left Top Edge Rule

Black metric rulers are black anodized hardened aluminum, 0.090 inch thick and 1 inch wide, with silver calibrations.

4 configurations · resolve live commerce on the PDP →

Choose the exact configuration

Open the product page, confirm the verified specifications and configuration, then resolve current price and purchasability from Shopify.

DIRECT ANSWERS

Questions people ask before choosing

Which customer and retailer type will the assortment serve?

Define the retailer's customer and use case first: design students, patternmakers, drafters, artists, makers, technical teams, or a broader creative assortment.

Which family should anchor the opening assortment?

Anchor the opening assortment in one or more coherent families, then add specialist tools that extend the same customer workflow. Do not select only by price or apparent popularity.

What content, display, staff education, and replenishment support are required?

A retail launch should include exact SKU and UPC identity, product-family signage, a visible selection guide, staff education, approved imagery, live availability, and a replenishment path.