15000 B.C 3100 B.C 1750 B.C 1500 B.C 1300 B.C 1000 B.C

1440 1040 800 114 C.E 197B.C 400B.C

1450 1470 1501 1530 1557 1692

Discovered in 1940, Lascaux paintings are 17300 years old.

Bronze Script writing

Book of the dead

Early Sumerian pictographs

Law code of Hammurabi

Rash Sharma script

Demotic Scrip

Chinese movable type

Rosetta Stone

Trajan’s Column Constructed

Book of Kells

Guttenberg perfects typographic printing

Unical

Romain du roi Typeface

Civilite Typeface

Jensen’s Roman Typeface

Grifffo Design first italic typeface

Claude Garamond Typeface

1840’s 1820’s 1816 1798 1760 1750’s

1880’s 1890’s 1900’s 1925 1927 1932

1980’s 1970’s 1967 1960’s 1950’s 1940’s

Slab Serif and Egyptian Typefaces

Clarendon

Cushing

Serifa

First San Sarif Type faces

Doric 12

Transitional Roman

Baskerville Typeface

Fournier

Modern Didone

1760

Lithographic system of image reproduction invented by Alois Senefelder.

Industrial Revolution, Introduction of diplay and decorative typefaces.

Poplar,Birch

First Magazine Typeface created by Morris Benton

Benton Century Old Style

Sans Serif Typefaces

Basic Commercial

Franklin Gothic

News Gothic

Stanley Morrison creates one of the most commonly used serif faces.

Times New Roman

Jan Tschichold

“Die Neue typographie”

Sans Serif Type influenced by Bauhaus art movement

Bauhaus Medium

Bauhaus Demi

Arts & Crafts Movement led by William Morris

Belwe Type , Clearface

Tiffany

Modernism & The punk movement influence type of design

Ransom Note

Psychedelic Type and Poster art

Amelia LL

Bad Acid

World War 2, Introduction of Stencil Typefaces

Tea Chest

Stencil

Neo-Grotesque

Sans Serif Typefaces

1st Machine readable typefaces

Ocra Std

Ocra Lt

Launch of the Apple

Mac Post Modernism

Neville Brody Art Director

Insignia

1990’s 2000 2004 2008

Gotham Typeface Created

Klavika Typeface

Museo Typeface

David Carson Ray Gun Magazine.

Grunge fonts

Blur Medium, Base 02,Polly