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Creation of modern fonts being an another milestone? I imagine the Gothic/Fraktur fonts were extremely impractical for high volume reading, for any reading real

• dredmorbius 7y ago
  NB: I've an interest in printing, I'm not an expert by any stretch. Possibly, though fonts were already pretty modern by the 18th century, at least in significant part. Aldus Manutius italic font was a major step forward (~1449 - 1515). German was the odd language out, still relying on blackletter fonts through the 20th century. These had been replaced by the 17th century elsewhere in Europe. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter If you go back further, there are numerous improvements to printing, bookmaking, and typography, going back to the invention of spaces between words, mixed-case (minuscule) type, and punctuation, as well as headings, chapters, and more. A good book on the history of the book should cover this (I've glanced at several, can't recommend any offhand). Another amazing online resource is the History of Information, which covers the topic from the dawn of speech to the present: https://www.historyofinformation.com https://www.historyofinformation.com Printing: https://www.historyofinformation.com/search.php?str=printing https://www.historyofinformation.com/search.php?str=printing Bookmaking: https://www.historyofinformation.com/search.php?str=bookmaking https://www.historyofinformation.com/search.php?str=bookmaki...