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SHISTORY
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Typefaces
HISTORY
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PIC

PIC
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PICTOGRAPH

PICTO GRAPH

Pictographs
Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of
writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and
Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC. They were symbols
representing objects, such as an ox.
PICTOGRAPH

CTOGRAPH

IDEO
GRAPH

IDEO
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Ideographs
Substituted symbols and abstractions for pictures
of events. They would represent not objects, but ideas.
IDEOGRAPH

IDEOGRAPH

PHOENICIAN
IDEOGRAPH

PHOENICIAN
IDEOGRAPH

PHOENICIAN
IDEOGRAPH

Phoenician
The Phoenician alphabet and characters, developed
around 1200 BC., were a direct ancestor of our modern
day Latin alphabet and fonts.They represented the
sounds of speech, rather than ideas or objects.
PHOENICIAN

HOENICIAN
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E K
HOENICIAN

E E K
HOENIC

REE K
HOEN

GREEK

Greek
The Greeks adopted the Phoenician language and began
to develop the true beginnings of our modern alphabet,
around 800 BC.
GREEK

EEK

EK

Roman
The romans further developed the alphabet by using
23 letters from the Etruscans who based their language
on the Greek. The Romans contributed short finishing
strokes at the end of the letters known as serifs, featuring
the first example of thick and thin strokes.

Guttenberg
In the 1400’s Guttenberg invented a system of
moveable type that revolutionized the world and
allowed for dramatic mass printing of materials. The
Black Letter forms were the model for his typeface.

Humanistic

Humanistic

Humanistic
Humanistic
The Humanisitc script was a revival of the Carolingian
minuscule of the ninth century and is the basis of the
first lowercase letters.

Humanistic

Humanistic

Garamond
Garamond is a group of many old-style serif typefaces,
named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude
Garamond (generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime).
Garamond-style typefaces are popular and often used,
particularly for printing body text and books.

Jon

Granjon

ert Granjon

Robert Granjon

Robert Granjon
Robert Granjon was a French type designer and printer.
He worked in Paris, Lyon, Frankfurt, Antwerp, and
Rome for various printers. He is best known for having
introduced the typeface Civilité and for his italic type
form, the design of which in modern days is used in
Garamond Italic.
Robert Granjon

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Robert Granjon

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Robert Granjon

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Caslon
Caslon is the name given to serif typefaces designed by
William Caslon. He worked in the tradition of what is
now called old-style serif letter design, that produced
letters with a relatively organic structure resembling
handwriting with a pen.
Caslon

Caslon
Bas

Caslon
Basker

Caslon
Baskerville

Baskerville
Baskerville
Baskerville is a serif typeface designed in the 1750s
by John Baskerville (in Birmingham, England and cut
into metal by punchcutter John Handy). Baskerville
is classified as a transitional typeface, intended as a
refinement of what are now called old-style typefaces of
the period, such as Caslon.

Bodoni
Baskerville

Bodoni
Baskerville

Bodoni
Baskerville

Bodoni
Bodoni
Bodoni is the name given to the serif typefaces first
designed by Giambattista Bodoni in the late eighteenth
century. Bodoni’s typefaces are classified as Didone
or modern. Bodoni followed the ideas of John
Baskerville, as found in the printing type Baskerville
increased stroke contrast reflecting developing printing
technology and a more vertical axis; but he took them to
a more extreme conclusion.

Bodoni
Cen
Ex

Cent
Expa

Century
Expand

Century
Expanded
Century
Century is the first major American typeface, designed
by 1894 by Linn Boyd Benton for Theodore Lowe
DeVinne, the printer of The Century Magazine. Its style
is called Egyptian, and is characterized by thich slabs
and stokes with little contrast between thicks and thin.
Expanded

Centur
Expanded

Cen
Exp

Cen
Exp

Helvetica
Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface
developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max
Miedinger. Helvetica is a neo-grotesque or realist
design, one influenced by the famous 19th century
typeface Akzidenz-Grotesk and other German and
Swiss designs. Its use became a hallmark of the
International Typographic Style that emerged from
the work of Swiss designers in the 1950s and 60s,
becoming one of the most popular typefaces of the
20th century.