035-044: An Incomplete History of Type

From the middle ages to the Middle East, from Futura to Freight, join us on a journey across the type universe and go where no designer has gone before… welcome to An Incomplete History of Type.

035: Blackletter - The world’s first mechanized typeface, used in the world’s first mass-produced book

036: Futura - The typeface that put a man on the moon

037: Helvetica - The world’s most ubiquitous typeface

038: ITC Zapf Chancery - The first and only calligraphic typeface shipped with the first Apple computers

039: Papyrus - Used and abused in personal computing and recently spoofed on SNL

040: Wingdings - Wingdings allowed personal computer users an easy way to communicate with symbols as represented through letters on the computer keyboard

041: Comic Sans - The world’s most loved-to-be-hated typeface

042: Gotham - The typeface that unified Barack Obama’s presidential campaign

043: Frieght - A popular typeface designed by the first-known African American type designer

044: Zapfino Arabic - This typeface was designed by one of the most talented female type designers in the world today, who is helping to bridge the gap between Latin and Arabic letterforms