A brief history of typefaces

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Whereas humanist designers such as Geofroy Tory were inspired by the human body, this ideal letterform was created along quasi-scientific lines. These engravings by Louis Simonneau is from an alphabet commissioned by Louis XIV in 1693. The engravings were the basis of a royal typeface (romain du roi) designed by Philippe Grandjean.
The types of the eighteenth-century English printer William Caslon are characterized by crisp, upright characters that recall the fluid strokes of the flexible steel pen and the pointed quill.
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Page 3: Movable type was invented by Johann
Page 6 and 7: Working in Venice in the late fifte
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Page 10 and 11: Integrated uppercase and lowercase
Page 12 and 13: Enlightenment and abstraction
Page 16 and 17: In the late eighteenth century, the
Page 19 and 20: Working in the media of engraving a
Page 22 and 23: These roman and italic letters were
Page 24 and 25: Monster fonts
Page 26 and 27: Fat Face is an inflated, hyper-bold
Page 28 and 29: Egyptian, or slab typefaces, introd
Page 30 and 31: This 1875 American advertising post
Page 32 and 33: Reform and revolution
Page 34 and 35: Golden type was created by the Engl
Page 36 and 37: Compare to Adobe Jenson, used t
Page 38 and 39: Herbert Bayer designed universal, c
Page 40: The Dutch designer Wim Crouwel publ
Page 43 and 44: The French designer Philippe Apeloi
Page 45 and 46: Type as narrative
Page 47 and 48: Back to work
Page 49 and 50: Mrs Eaves Mrs Eaves
Page 51 and 52: Note the vertical italic; this is s
Page 53 and 54: Jonathan Hoefler, typography.com Ho
Page 55 and 56: Giza, by David Berlow, Font Bureau
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