The History of Typography

The first font invented was Blackletter but because it was too dense Roman Type was created in 15th century by Jenson. It was cleaner than Blackletter, but there was a problem of print. The next innovation: Italics Roman, allowed people to use more words on the same paper, yet saving money on print.

Then Caslon invented what we called Old Style (having fix Serifs), Baskerville(invented in Birmingham) drawn the 'Transitional' having thin Serifs and then, what we called 'Modern' was invented by Didot ad Bodoni, the font having very thin Serifs.


Caslon IV invented Sans Serif but the development just began. For the posters and advertisement it was invented Egyptian and then Helvetica, the most famous font in the world.





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