Auto decals were first introduced in Europe in 1876. It sported a different term back then. It was known as ‘popular demand’, and the available designs for car decals was only 300.
Because of high demand, the designs made became 10,000 by 1878, the time when decalcomania phenomenon-or decal for short-began. The word decal is derived from a French word ‘decalquer’ which means to copy by tracing.
