10 Interesting Fact About The history of typography
10 Interesting Fact About The history of typography
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The word typography comes from Greek, namely typos which means printing and graphein which means to write.
Ancient Egyptians were the first to use letters on stones and clay around 4000 BC.
The first alphabet that is known is the phynician alphabet that appears around 1200 BC.
William Caslon is a famous English letter designer in the 18th century.
Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of the first printing machine in the world in 1440.
Types of Times New Roman First introduced by the English print company, The Times, in 1931.
Austrian designer, Rudolf Koch, is known as one of the best letter designers in the 20th century.
Helvetica letters which are very popular in modern designs, first introduced in 1957.
The term sans-serif is used to describe the type of letters that do not have serif or tail at the ends of the letters.
In ancient times, manual bookiers often make mistakes in copying letters, and sometimes they even add images or illustrations to the text to beautify them.
