History of Type Task

Whole class task - From the list below, each learner will each be assigned two typefaces to research. Findings will be presented to the group and collated to create a timeline of historical developments in typefaces.
• 1450 Guttenberg’s 42 Line Bible Textura
• 1469 Nicolas Jenson’s Roman
• 1501 Francesco Griffo’s Italic
• 1528 Claude Garamond’s Roman
• 1702 Philippe Grandjean’s Roman du Roi
 • 1754 John Baskerville’s Roman
• 1784 Firmin Didot’s Roman
• 1816 William Caslon IV’s Sans Serif
• 1817 Vincent Figgins Antique
• 1820 Robert Thorne’s Fat Face
• 1917 Edward Johnston’s Railway Sans
• 1927 Paul Renner’s Futura
• 1932 Stanley Morison’s Times New Roman
• 1953 Roger Excoffon’s Mistral
• 1957 Max Miedinger’s Helvetica
• 1984 Chicago: First Apple Computers Font
• 1990 P. Scott Makela’s Dead History
• 2000 Tobias Frere-Jones’s Gotham

History of fonts from Jo Lowes