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By this point, 35,000 books have been printed.
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The first Italic Typeface was created by Francesco Griffo.
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Claude Garamond, designed the first version of Garamond.
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The American Colonies have their first Printing Press.
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Created by John Baskerville to improve on William Caslon's fonts. Baskerville didnt look as hand written as previous fonts.
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Firmin Didot was given credit for creating the Modern Typeface.
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Created by Giambattista Bodoni.
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The first Sans Serif font was designed by William Caslon.
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Designed by Gunter Gerhard Lange. This was the most common font in Swiss Style, until Helvetica.
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Developed by Paul Renner.
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Designed by Frank Hinman Pierpont.
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Created Eric Gill and it was often refered to as the "British Helvetica."
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Developed by Stanley Morison for the British newspaper, The Time. He was asked to create a new font for the newspaper, after publicly insulting their current font.
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Created by William Addison Dwiggins.
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The literal meaning is Swiss, it was created by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffman during the Swiss Movement.
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There are different versions that had existed before. this version was created by Joel Kaden and Tony Stan.
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Created by a group of people, but it was based on Monotype Grotesque from the 1920's.
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1989 was when todays version was designed, but it was initially created by Clause Garamond in the 1400's and adapted from De Aetna.
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Designed by Vincent Connare.
