10 typefaces (fonts) that shaped the world and their lesser-known facts:
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Bodoni
Fact: Bodoni is the first modern typeface
Created by: Giambattista Bodoni
Fact: Bodoni is the first modern typeface
Created by: Giambattista Bodoni
Avant Garde
Fact: First font designed for a magazine.
Created by: Herb Lubalin & Tom Carnase
Fact: First font designed for a magazine.
Created by: Herb Lubalin & Tom Carnase
Avenir
Fact: Avenir font gives a futuristic look to the design.
Created by: Adrian Frutiger
Fact: Avenir font gives a futuristic look to the design.
Created by: Adrian Frutiger
Baskerville
Fact: Baskerville remains a truly excellent typeface for book design.
Created by: John Baskerville
Fact: Baskerville remains a truly excellent typeface for book design.
Created by: John Baskerville
Century Gothic
Fact: CG has been highly used for advertisement purpose
Created by: Sol Hess
Fact: CG has been highly used for advertisement purpose
Created by: Sol Hess
Didot
Fact: Didot is everywhere on fashion mag covers like Vogue and Bazaar, on billboards and brands logo like Zara.
Created by: Firmin Didot
Fact: Didot is everywhere on fashion mag covers like Vogue and Bazaar, on billboards and brands logo like Zara.
Created by: Firmin Didot
Futura
Fact: Futura was the first font in space. NASA used Futura to engrave the aluminium plaque left on the moon as a memento of the Apollo 11 mission.
Created by: Paul Renner
Fact: Futura was the first font in space. NASA used Futura to engrave the aluminium plaque left on the moon as a memento of the Apollo 11 mission.
Created by: Paul Renner
Garamond
Fact: Particularly used for book printing and body text.
Created by: Claude Garamond, Jean Jannon, Rober Slimbach
Fact: Particularly used for book printing and body text.
Created by: Claude Garamond, Jean Jannon, Rober Slimbach
Gill Sans
Fact: Classified as a "humanist" sans serif, making it very legible and readable in text and display work.
Created by: Eric Gill
Fact: Classified as a "humanist" sans serif, making it very legible and readable in text and display work.
Created by: Eric Gill
Helvetica
Fact: Helvetica is the Latin word for ‘Switzerland.’
Created by: Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann
Fact: Helvetica is the Latin word for ‘Switzerland.’
Created by: Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann
Optima
Fact: Works for just about anything from book text to signage
Created by: Hermann Zapf
Fact: Works for just about anything from book text to signage
Created by: Hermann Zapf
Times Roman
Fact: Associate with stability. Calibri replaced Times New Roman as Microsoft’s default font
Created by:Stanley Morison & Victor Lardent
Fact: Associate with stability. Calibri replaced Times New Roman as Microsoft’s default font
Created by:Stanley Morison & Victor Lardent
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