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Period: Jun 10, 1500 to
History of Typography
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Jun 11, 1500
Books
By this point, 35,000 books have been printed. -
Jun 10, 1501
Italic Typeface
The first Italic Typeface was created by Francesco Griffo. -
Jun 11, 1545
(#1) Garamond
Claude Garamond, designed the first version of Garamond. -
Printing Press
The American Colonies have their first Printing Press. -
Baskerville
Created by John Baskerville to improve on William Caslon's fonts. Baskerville didnt look as hand written as previous fonts.
Fun Fact: John Baskerville was likely Doyle's insperation behind Sherlock Holmes. -
Modern Typeface
Firmin Didot was given credit for creating the Modern Typeface. -
Bodoni
Created by Giambattista Bodoni. -
Sans Serif
The first Sans Serif font was designed by William Caslon. -
Akzidenz-Grotesk
Designed by Gunter Gerhard Lange. This was the most common font in Swiss Style, until Helvetica. -
Futura
Developed by Paul Renner. -
Monotype Grotesque
Designed by Frank Hinman Pierpont. -
Gill Sans
Created Eric Gill and it was often refered to as the "British Helvetica." -
Times New Roman
Developed by Stanley Morison for the British newspaper, The Time. He was asked to create a new font for the newspaper, after publicly insulting their current font. -
Caledonia
Created by William Addison Dwiggins. -
Helvetica
The literal meaning is Swiss, it was created by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffman during the Swiss Movement. -
American Typewriter
There are different versions that had existed before. this version was created by Joel Kaden and Tony Stan. -
Arial
Created by a group of people, but it was based on Monotype Grotesque from the 1920's. -
(#2) Garamond
1989 was when todays version was designed, but it was initially created by Clause Garamond in the 1400's and adapted from De Aetna. -
Comic Sans MS
Designed by Vincent Connare.
