A brief history of typefaces

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Fat Face is an inflated, hyper-bold type style developed in the early nineteenth century. It is Bodoni on steroids.
Extra Condensed typefaces, first seen in nineteenth-century advertisements, were designed to fit tall letters in narrow spaces. Such letters were made from wood rather than metal, because lead is too soft to hold up under the pressure of printing large-scale letters.
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Page 3: Movable type was invented by Johann
Page 6 and 7: Working in Venice in the late fifte
Page 8 and 9: Working in Venice in the late fifte
Page 10 and 11: Integrated uppercase and lowercase
Page 12 and 13: Enlightenment and abstraction
Page 14 and 15: Whereas humanist designers such as
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 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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