2000 BCE Sui generis
1500 BCE Ras Shamra Script
1000 BCE Greek Alphabet
850 BCE Aramaic
200 - 500
SQUARE CAPITALS/RUSTIC CAPITALS
4th C
Roman Cursive
4th-5th C
UNCIALS
500
Half-Uncials
925
Caroline Minuscule
900
Blackletter
1455
J. Gutenberg
42 line bible
Mainz
1460
Lucius Lactantius
De Divinis Institutionibus
Venice
1472
Cardinal Johannes Bessarion
Adversus Calumniatorem Platonis
Conrad Swenheim and Arnold Pannartz
Subiaco Press,
Rome
1471
Quintilian
Institutiones Oratoriae
Nicholas Jenson
Venice
1495
De Aetna by Pietro Bembo
type by Francesco Griffo
1499
Colona
Hypnerrotomachia Poliphili
type by Francesco Griffo
(see 1929 Monotype corporation)
1515
Lucretius
De Rerum Natura
type by Francesco Griffo
1500 - 1525
Geofroy Tory introducees the colon, accent marks, and the cedilla (ç) into printing
1531
Terentiani Mauri Nilicae Syenes
Praesidis
printed by Simon de Colines
Paris
Type-cast by Clude Garamond
1572
(preface to) Polyglot Bible
Printed by Christophe Plantin
Antwerp
1667 Oxford University Press is founded
(purchases its first type from Christoffel van Dijck of Amsterdam
(1672 punches and matrices from Dirk and Bartholemew Voskens)
1690 Type known as Janson is first cut by Hungarian Nicholas Kis
1734
William Caslon
Type Specimon Sheet
London
1761
William Congreve
The works of William Congreve
typeset and printed by John Baskerville
Birmingham
1800 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
jobbing/commercial printing separates as a genre from book printing
1803
Robert Thorne designs the first FAT FACE and coins the term Egyptian to describe Slab Serif typefaces
1818
Giambattista Bodoni
Manuale Tipographico
Parma
(Bodoni would improve ink and paper surface to show off his delicate typeface)
1896
Akzidenz Grotesk
Berthold Type Foundry
(Akzidenz = commercial type, Grotesk = san serif)
1916
London Underground logo and signage
Edward Johnston
1923
Prospectus for the BAUHAUS
Láslo Moholy-Nagy
1926
Bauer Bodoni
by Louis Höll
Bauer Type Foundry
(based on Bodoni cuts of 1789)
1927
Futura
Paul Renner
(1st geometric san serif designed for text applications)
1928
Gill Sans
Eric Gill
(based on Edward Johnston's 1916 typeface for the signage of the London Underground)
1929
Bembo
Monotype corporation
1929
Monotype Baskerville
Monotype corporation
1929
Memphis
by Rudolf Wolf
Stempel Foundry
1939
Kilroy was here
(so was Bozo Texino)
1930s - depression era:
Mexican-American pachucos and hobo boxcar marking
1957
Univers
by Adrian Frutiger
released by Deberny & Peignot Foundry
1959
Neue Grafik
Josef Müller-Brockmann,
Richard Lohse,
Hans Neuberg,
Carlo Vivarelli
1977
Glypha
by Adrian Frutiger
Linotype
1981
Bitstream Inc begins offering digital typefaces
1989
Adobe Garamond
Robert Slimbach
(working from Garamond's roman and Granjon's italic)
1990
Adobe Caslon
Carol Twombly
(working from Caslon specimen sheets of 1738 and 1786)
2000
the extinction of the typesetter
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