A Brief History of Type

Fonts and Layout for Global Scripts

Digital fonts go vector A post script The Bézier Curve PostScript Fonts, TrueType and OpenType From TrueType to OpenType Multiple Masters and Variable fonts Once upon a time, a font was a bunch of pieces of metal. The first recorded use of metal type for printing comes from China. In 13th century, banknotes were printed with anti-counterfeit devices printed using blocks of bronze; 1 the first metal type books were produced in Korea around the same time. 2 Two hundred years later, Johannes Gutenberg came up with a similar system for creating metal type that would spread rapidly over Europe and

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