During our class time in the computer lab, Mr. Casal showed us a video about history of typography. After watching this video I learned that typography started out in Europe when I thought started in America which surprised me. I also learned typography was made before computers were made and can be created in different forms of typeface. It was first made by Yohanes Guttenberg who created black letter, but in the 15th centry, Nicolas Jenson in Rome created cambria.  In the late 15th centry, italices from Italy was invented by Aldus Manutius. In England, William Caslon created what we called old style. Then Baskerville created what we call transitinol, Then, Didot and Bodoni created what we call modern. But, Caslon’s grandson Caslon IV got tired and created a typeface called sans serif. Then, Goudy created a typeface called geomtry sans/futura based on geometric shapes. After that, egyptian sans or slab serif was invented. Then humanist sans came, it was based on the geometric sans made by Eric Gill.Then,helvetica was made.It was what the world was looking for. It was the worlds favorite typeface. Now, we can creat any typeface we want by the computer. And that’s why I think typography is cool,very COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

here is the video we watched:

The History of Typography by Ben Barrett-Forrest from Dezeen on Vimeo.