This weeks reading was a bit boring and long. I did come across a few interesting topics. William Caslon was a big dog when it came to type design. Apparently his styles were used for 6 decades! Also his fonts were used in the printing of the Declaration of Independence. How cool! This was out of left field I didn't foresee the bridge between Europe and the American Colonies. Which brings me to a website I stumbled upon in my research. I found this really neat website that has a bunch of user created fonts, not typeface but it appears to be just another innovation of typography. These fonts are at a range of intricacy and even utter simplicity. After reading the chapters assigned, I was able to better connect with the history of typography with our present day typography and how it is used in graphic design for an endless amount of things. Like billboards, magazines, books, movie titles/covers, posters, websites, logos, etc. I am glad though that we don't have it as hard as they did, with making paper, and printing presses. It seems to be easily accessible for anyone in the 21st century.
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