Font Timeline

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  • Oct 14, 1540

    Garamond

    Garamond
    French King Francis I commissions Claude Garamond to develop a Greek typeface for a book series.

  • Caslon

    Caslon
    In 1734, William Calson issued the typeface which included straighter serifs and greater contrasts between major and minor strokes.

  • Bodoni

    Bodoni
    In 1780 Firmin Didiot and Giambattista Bodoni of Italy developed the First Modern Romans.

  • Fette Fraktur

    Fette Fraktur
    Fette Fraktur is a blackletter typeface of the sub-classification Fraktur designed by the German punchcutter Johann Christian Bauer (1802–1867) in 1850.

  • Franklin Gothic

    Franklin Gothic
    Franklin Gothic and its related faces are realist sans-serif typefaces originated by Morris Fuller Benton (1872–1948) in 1902.

  • Cooper Black

    Cooper Black
    Cooper Black is a heavily weighted, display serif typeface designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper in 1921 and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922.

  • Futura

    Futura
    Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner.

  • Gill Sans

    Gill Sans
    Gill Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards.

  • Rockwell

    Rockwell
    Rockwell is a slab serif typeface designed by the Monotype Corporation and released in 1934.

  • Helvetica

    Helvetica
    Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with input from Eduard Hoffmann.

  • Bell Centennial

    Bell Centennial
    Bell Centennial is a sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter in the period 1975–78.

  • Avenir

    Avenir
    Avenir is a proportional geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988 and released by Linotype GmbH, now a subsidiary of Monotype Corporation.

  • Trajan

    Trajan
    Trajan is an old style serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe.

  • FF Meta

    FF Meta
    FF Meta is a humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann and released in 1991 through his FontFont library.

  • Georgia

    Georgia
    Georgia is a serif typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter and hinted by Tom Rickner for the Microsoft Corporation.

  • Comic Sans

    Comic Sans
    Comic Sans MS, commonly referred to as Comic Sans, is a sans-serif casual script typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation.

  • Zapfino

    Zapfino
    Zapfino is a calligraphic typeface designed for Linotype by typeface designer Hermann Zapf in 1998.