With the project 1 presentations wrapping up yesterday, I finally got to answer my question about the different influences of type over the time. It seems like it wasn't a consistent religious and governmental influence like I had thought. After day 1, with Patrick and Blair's time period on day 2 there was a big shift in revolution and freedom. This created a rift between the classes and type they used. This thought continued on through the different eras into the early to mid 20th century and on into the present with type being developed by people different from the wealthy elitists. With education being more readily available, type was able to be developed by many different types of people. The theme seemed to shift to type being developed to stand out from everyone else. With so many different types around today, there is something for everyone hoping to be different. However, type is more based on ease of readability. I can only hope that we don't lose the older artistic types. They take more time and effort to use but their beauty is irreplaceable.
Apparently this didn't post last week like it was supposed to. Weird blogger glitch.
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