Let’s start from the start: bam the world is born… oh wait BANG and the world is born and so is writing (it didn’t happen that fast but you get the idea).

Type first began as symbols representing things which led to those symbols of things to form messages on walls and of course it’s still popular today wow moving away from wool riding and cough tablets the 11th century rolled around and China was like Hey what if you could make this easier so they created these letter blocks which would later be used to teach babies the alphabet. I’m kidding but they did make these blocks and it made it so much easier to write stuff.

Korea saw what was happening and were like dude let’s make this out of metal and so they did! Woo we’re printing stuff let’s gooo! The Western countries were like dude good thing our alphabet is so easy let’s start Mass producing books and stuff using these reusable character blocks and stamp them onto paper.

This developed into its own art form of communication over time new typefaces were designed to be more legible and rules of design started to be uncovered the industrial revolution of course made type explode even more everything including communication needed to be mass-produced and fast to deliver. Of course, text itself can be boring so graphic design was born people were adding pretty pictures and combining typefaces and creating cool stuff.

And so more design rules and easier to read typefaces and more eye-catching typefaces came into play – graphic design and art just got hella lit.

As this has all been happening the printing process went through various rounds of being made more efficient phototype became a thing and went away soon after because computers were born hooray now artists could digitize their designed typefaces and other artists could use them in their artworks so freaking cool!

Oh and not to mention now Comic Sans would divide the world forever torn between a fun for comics and a meme for bad graphic design.