. His concept involved carving wooden blocks into indiviual letters then pressing them onto the pages. This concept was mostly used in bibles as it was a very expensive venture and often people atempted to steal as the bible was thought to be worth a fortune for its time as it was considered a major breakthrough. Heres an example the font used in a book.
Below is a font called Old English, which surprisingly originated in Germany, and is conisdered a gothic typeface and is often associated with a negative presence. Is probably most famous for its involvement with Adolf Hitler, who wanted to use the font to represent Germany, thus from those days the font has always been proceeded in a negative wiew. And is also familiar with hells angels and has become a popular tatoo font and is often seen as anyone who is anti - social or wants to casue contriversy.
Following on from the typeface Old English.The next mafoj advancment in the history of typography was the Humanist Handwriting style which came from the 15 century and was invented by nicolas Jenson. This style of font is now known as Venetia Style and introduced the world to itallics which gave a feel of handwritten font.
The first moveable text arguably was that of what was included in the film trailor for the Movie Metropolis, which is a greap peice of moveable text by todays standate and its inevitable alot of title have tooken major influence from this squence, from the likes of Saul Bass to even title sequences of huge modern films such as Catch Me As You Can such was the brilliance and one in which I can take infulence from looking into my film title sequence as im going for that saul bass look which I can draw reference from the Metropolis sequence shown below
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