Explore a New Digital Edition of Printing Types, the Authoritative History of Printing & Typography from 1922

Times New Roman has been around since 1931, longer than most of us have been alive — and for longer than many of us have been alive, word-processing applications have come with it as the default font.

ARETE — Visual History of the Latin Alphabet

Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces to each other

The first sanserif type – ABYME

Understanding typography: Giambattista Bodoni and the invention of modern type

Over the course of roughly 300 years, Roman typefaces transitioned from what we classify as “old style”—as epitomized by the work of Claude Garamond and William Caslon—to the transitional (John…