How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we
work out how to print in colour? Many of the standard features of
printed books were designed by pioneering typographers and printers
in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Although Johannes
Gutenberg is credited with printing the first books in Europe with
moveable type, at the height of the Renaissance many different
European printers and publishers found innovative solutions to
replicate the appearance of manuscript books in print and improve
on them. The illustrated examples in Typographic Firsts originate
in those early decades, bringing into focus the influences and
innovations that shaped the printed book and established a Western
typographic canon. From the practical challenges of polychromatic
printing or printing music staves and notes to the techniques for
illustrating books with woodcuts, producing books for children and
the design of the first fonts, these stories chart the invention of
the printed book, the world's first means of mass communication.
Also covering title pages, maps, printing in gold and printing in
colour, this book shows how a mixture of happenstance and brilliant
technological innovation came together to form the typographic and
design conventions of the book.
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