TYPEFACE CLASSIFICATIONS BY DATE (supplement for ALPHABET Timeline):

(this supplementary information may help you organize your timeline, but it is not required.  The only required information are the date of the type classes):

TYPEFACE CLASSIFICATIONS BY DATE:

1450 BLACKLETTER

Cloister Black

Goudy Text

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1475 OLDSTYLE

Bembo

Caslon

Dante

Garamond

Janson

Jenson

Palatino

1500 ITALIC

1550 SCRIPT

Kuenstler Script

Mistral

Snell Roundhand

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1750 TRANSITIONAL

Baskerville 

Bulmer

Century

Times Roman

1775 MODERN

Bell 

Bodoni

Caledoni

Didot

Walbaum

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1825 SQUARE SERIF

Clarendon

Memphis

Rockwell

Serifa

1900 SANS SERIF

Akzidenz Grotesk

Grotesque

Gill Sans

Franklin Gothic

Frutiger

Futura 

Helvetica

Meta

News Gothic

Optima

Syntax

Trade Gothic

Univers

1990 EXPANDED TYPE FAMILY

Rotis

Scala

Stone