In the “History of type”, I learned that typography went through many changes from centuries past to the present, especially how type was made. For example, type before was used in dyes, currency punches, and seals, and then one day in the 11th century, China created the first movable type using ceramic materials and in Korea, was the first metal type. Moreover, people like Johannes made the first massively produced Guttenberg bible that included movable type. With type being the main focus, a lot of emphasis on the type was usedfor many things such as posters, books, plays, and there were even nbewer ways in which type was gooing to be created for much convenience. In the case of Otmae Mergenthaler, he created the hot lead alloy metal type which allowed typing to be less cumbersome. As the years go on, type was used in advertisiment and for commercial use.

In the ” Fun history of type” I learned that during the ages of humankind, different ways of calligraphy and typography were used in different time periods. In ancient Egypt, papyrus was used to write out hieroglyphs, stone tablets in Ancient Rome. When Guttenberg came along, he massively produced the Guttenberg bible using first ever movable printing press. With the printing press being movable, many establishments like schools and churches used it to write more books, texts, etc. Advertising was heavily used during the industrial time period with different, fancy typefaces and when apple came along in the 1980’s, a new reading habit appeared with the pixelated letters. Finally, in the 90’s and nowadays, types are heavily digitized with using a computer to moving our screens on our mobile, tablet devices.