A brief history of typefaces

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Working in Venice in the late fifteenth century, Nicolas Jenson created letters that combined gothic calligraphic traditions with the new Italian taste for humanist handwriting, which were based on classical models.
The Venetian publisher Aldus Manutius distributed inexpensive, small-format books in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to a broad, international public. His books used italic types, a cursive form that economized printing by allowing more words to fit on a page. This page combines italic text with roman capitals.
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Page 3: Movable type was invented by Johann
Page 6 and 7: 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 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
Page 57: Clearview Hwy is the new typeface d

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