Typography
Robert L. Craig
Typography is a process for reproducing text, figures, punctuation, characters, ornaments, and borders via printing press or electronic communication. distinguished from calligraphy, by which single, handwritten copies are made. Manuscripts set into type may be printed stored electronically, allowing an infinite number of exact replicas to distributed widely. Early typeface designs were modeled after calligraphic letter‐forms but book typefaces quickly moved away writing as model. In development spurred the Industrial Revolution, commercialization, later growth digital typography, made design easier, hundreds thousands formal, informal, decorative typestyles in use today.
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