Typography

Traditionally defined as the art of process of setting, arranging, and designing type.
It is the glue that holds a design together, control emotions, tells stories not just with words but with design and style of the type.

IT IS INFLUENCED BY technological advances and culture
​(political, social, academic, artistic, etc).

• Type evolved from one-of-a-kind handwritten scripts to printed technologies - this changed the nature of written communication so much that the term "typography" was coined to describe it.
• Current digital typographic innovations continue to push the boundaries of type use in design.
• Typographic quality is based on reproducibility.

History of Type

Timeline of key events in type history.