Even with a small sample of 100 typefaces, a timeline shows quite accurately the acceleration and proliferation of type design during the 20th century.
Click on a typeface name to find out more. |
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The scale changes increment (x3) from 1900 onwards to show the number of types produced; the important manufacturing innovations that fuelled this increase are shown in red. |
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Although the traditional categories of type (like old style, transitional etc.) are based on historical developments, in a diagram like this all styles appear to co-exist without any clearly defined boundaries. |
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Fontographer font editing software Altsys Corporation 1987 | | |