Type timelife

Type

Bastarda 

first typeface 

Textura 

blackletter 

Jenson 

Roman /serif

Nicolas Jenson 

1470

Consistent 

changed how languages were used 

Griffo’s roman 

Roman/serif

Francesco Griffo 

1495

Griffo italic

Roman/serif/italic 

Francesco Griffo 

1501

Fraktur

Blackletter 

Leonhard Wagner

1513

Famous

Used by the Nazi 

Garamond Roman 

Roman/serif

Claude Garamond 

1538

Evolution of the previous styles, more precise 

Baskerville

Serif/traditional 

John Baskerville 

1757

Enlightment liturature 

Change of the usage of the typefaces no longer only the church. there were more science articles 

Bodoni 

serif/modern

1788

industiral revolution, sience revolution 

Giambattista Bodoni 

Friggins antique 

slab serif/display type

vincent Figgs

1815

change in society no longer farming

"advertising "

Thorowgoods grotesque

sans-serif/display 

william Thorowgood

1815

not appropriate to write without serif 

heavy lettering 

Clarendon

serif/display/"Clarendon" style

William Thorowgood

1815

Franklin Gothic 

sans-serif/grotesque

american typefounders 

1904

newspaper and advertising

Avant-Garde 

sans-serif/geometric 

Herb Lubalin 

1970

display not large amounts of copy 

Verdana 

sans-serif/digital 

Matthew Carter

1996

exclusively made for the screen 

designed for Microsoft