Fonts history

2009-12-06
Babylon. The legend of Gilgamesh. 20 centuries B.C.
With everything that I possessed I loaded it (i.e., the ship).
With everything that I possessed of silver I loaded it.
With everything that I possessed of gold I loaded it.
With all that I possessed of all the seed of life I loaded it.
I made to go up into the ship all my family and kinsfolk,
The ca...
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2009-12-14
Sabon font has developed in 1965 by Jan Chihol (1902-1974) by request of three Germany fonts companies. Jan Chihol studied in the Leipzig academy of book business and drawing. He taught calligraphy and set stylistics at the Munich school of printers, under the invitation of its head and the developer of a font (Futara) Paulja Renera. He had wrote more than 50 books devoted to a font and...
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2010-01-08
In modern graphic design the wide choice of various fonts - from classical text to modern, advertising, time of extravagant projects is offered to the artist. At such quantity and variety of fonts, and in this variety the most part is made by fonts of doubtful quality as technical and art relation, in the designer robot on the first place took problem of a choice of this or that font.

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2010-01-08
The first books printed with a font of Bembo, have appeared in 1495. The font has been developed and cut out (Oranchesko) by Griffo (1450-1518) for the Venetian scientific humanist, the publisher and a printer of Alda Manutsija (1450-1515). In 1500 Manutsy has based "New Academy". Like Platon's academy in Athenes (387 year BC) . The academy, united scientists of different specialities who...
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