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As the world faced a second global war, among the politics and propaganda, the 1930s saw significant change in the way people communicated through design – particularly as the written word became ...

The 1970s were a bold, transformative decade for design, and typography was no exception. As phototypesetting matured, designers found themselves freed from the physical constraints of metal type, ...

The 1920s saw incredible transformation in typography and graphics more broadly. It was, in fact, the decade when the term ...

A short, educational animation about the history of fonts and typography. In a paper cutout stop-motion style, it begins with Gutenberg's creation of the first typeface, travels through the ...

CHM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The Visual History of Type' is a comprehensive, detailed survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with ...