HISTORY OF TYPOGRAPHY

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language most appealing to learning and recognition. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, size, line length, leading, tracking, and kerning.

Typography is performed by typesetters, compositors, typographers, graphic designers, art directors, manga artists, comic book artists, graffiti artists, clerical workers, and everyone who arranges type for a product. Until the Digital Age, typography was a specialized occupation.

Before characters, fonts and typefaces were introduced, people expressed their thoughts through pictographs, a collection of pictures and symbols.

Later pictographs substituted to ideograph, a more sophisticated and linear way of communication.

There were also a set of fonts that come with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer package, which includes: Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, Verdana and Wingdings.