Language has to be agreed and negotiated by a group of people to be understood.both the sender and receiver of information or language need to be able to understand.
'Type is what language looks like.'
typography is a mechanical process both print and screen based and is ultimately the order and way in which letterforms are laid out, it is the visual form of human language. Whereas type is the fundamental individual letterforms or glyphs which make up words or language. When type was created it meant that the spoken word could become the written word. The creation of the written word was primarily driven by trade between people and countries. it was the culmination of language and alphabetic forms.
The Rosetta Stone is evidence of the different languages and ways of communication between different groups and how that came about.
The Greek alphabet is the nearest neighbour to our current alphabet now, and our language now actually originates from mainly Germany.
When Johannes Gutenburg invented the printing press in 1450, it meant that type could become a physical thing and when William Forster in 1870 installed the framework for schooling of children, meant that everyone could actually begin to learn how o eead and reap the benefits of type as a physical hing, such as books and newspapers.
The creation of the Bauhaus between 1919 and 1933 meant that the arts and crafts industry came together and began to become industrilsed and type began to shape the future.
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