![]() ![]() As the Chinese had moveable woodblock type presses as far back as 868. Although Gutenburg created a moveable type printing press, he cannot claim to have invented it. Johannes Gutenburg who in 1446 started experimenting with what we now know as the printing press and by 1450 he had a working prototype. Communicating with everyone who sets their eyes on it.īut how has British typography and British type designers played their part in this world of letters and numbers? Only to be clattered by an oncoming lorry. If a STOP sign is written in Comic Sans would we take it seriously? Would we chuckle as we nonchalantly trundled past without a care in the world. But it is the design of the fonts that gives us the meaning and the take out of the letters and words. ![]() They tell us where we should be going, how we should think and even how we should feel. On every street corner, in every book and newspaper and on every side of every lorry. Before we get into the history of British typography.
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