2 History of Type videos

In the video, “A Brief History of Type” by Rob Leushcke talks about how types evolve from past to now. This video was interesting to know that the first movable form of type was created in China using ceramic materials and then a short time later metal type was being used in Korea. In the West, Johannaes Gutenberg created the first mas-produced book the Gutenberge Bible. In 1470s, the French artist Nicholas Jensen was the first to create a Roman face. In 1800s, Otmar Mergenthaler developed a machine that would cast a hot lead alloy of metal into lines of type. In 1898, Talbert Ianceton created the mono type system and it was used by most of the large publishing houses and newspapers. In the mid-1980s, the typographic industry prepared for a technological transformation so the type design could be found on everything. By the 1990s font development software had became reasonable for the graphic designer. Today, the trend of new creative thought design is getting stronger as the development of software allows artists to use powerful tools at will.

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