+Room of Bulls being first signs of Communication
+Symbols were to represent ideas or concepts which were Ideographs
+Petroglyphs and pictographs were simplified to look like letters
+Egyptian Hieroglyphs become most simple
+First Movable Type Chineses 1045 A.D.
+Roman Take over Greece and finalize our 26 letter alphabet
+Dark Age begins and Christian writing became primary importance
+Caroline Minuscule was made
+Textura was made and was the first international style of type identified
+15th Century books produced with moveable type
+Textura was first printed text
+Textura was first typeface family
+Illuminated Manuscripts were made for history books
+Albrecht Durer put mathematical construction and geometry in type design
+Aldus Manutius made first italic font and used it to make pocket books
+John Baskerville reduced design elements to make fore more sharpness and high contrast form.
+Modern Style where Italian and French met and constructed Bodoni
+England people started using Monster Type and did what they wanted
+first san serif debut in a specimen book 1816
+Darius Wells invented lateral router for wood type
The most exciting part to me was when Greeks were introduced. How they set the ground pretty much for typography. Printing was really interesting and how it came about and how all the printing presses made different typefaces to make old style roman, Italic, Transitional, Modern, Egyptian/ Slab Serif and San Serif. To me seeing this small brief of type history, i wonder know more how the design of letter comes from and how really can we change them today, and how we can make better typefaces then the classical fonts. This really haunts me a lot for that one day i wish to create a typeface to change the history with it. Yet knowing the history more, what else can be done? Yet it excites me to see what is happening now and what will happen tomorrow with type design.
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