Typography is the study of type and type faces, the evolution of printed letters. Since man did not begin to write with type, but rather the chisel, brush, and pen, it is the study of handwriting, that provides us with the basis for creating type design.
One of the most important Type Designer in history is “Claude Garamond.” We are still usign his typeface Garamound. He was born in 1480 in Paris and died in 1561 in Paris.
Garamonds first type is used in an edition of the book “Paraphrasis in Elagantiarium Libros Laurentii Vallae by Erasmus. It is based on Aldus Mnutius type De Aetna, cut in 1455. 1540. The typeface Garamond produced between 1530 and 1545 are considered the typographicak highlight of the 16th century.
History of Visual Communication 