[i love typography, the typography blog] The profession of typography was essentially born in Germany with Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of a movable metal type printing press in the early 1450s. The individual pieces of metal type that Gutenberg worked with were not letters, but letterforms.
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[Global Media Project] The Inescapable Printed Word: When the printing press arrived on the typographic scene at the end of the 15th century, fonts and typography in Europe were primarily controlled by the Catholic Church. To differentiate their type style from the Catholic printings, Protestant Dutch monks designed their own letterforms that they carried on their backs to avoid persecution from the Diocese while still spreading their message, (Graphic Design: A Concise History, Hollis 68).
[Shao Kelake] Starting points for typographic inspiration: Typography is an artform that stretches back thousands of years””from stone-carved letterforms in the second century, to Gutenberg’s creation of movable, letterpress type in 1448. Typesetting was born a tedious trade where hours were spent laying out a book’s pages one letter at a time.
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