Reading repsonse to http://www.redsun.com/type/abriefhistoryoftype/
It is amazing how the design of movable type has gotten us. We truley take advantage and under appreciate what this invention has done for us. After completing the type face tracing exercise, I can know only partially imagine how painful it was prior to movable type to write a book by hand. Now with technology, it is so (too) easy for anyone people to write anything and be able to publish at blazing speeds, especially considering in computer format. Even with movable type, the initial process to create the metal type forms still required patience, craft and design concept. Now a simple font program allows any computer user to throw pixels or vector points around creating any font to their desire in fractions of the time being able to work much more efficiently.
So with that short thought in mind, thanks Mr. Johannes Gutenberg.
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