Type is the physical representation of speech, it has developed over thousands of years and changed through people and cultures.
There isn't specific time that type was made, cavemen had images and mark makings to communicate but as people were spreading out into the world language and type changed and developed. This is very apparent in cases like oriental type and language.
"All that is necessary for any language to exist is an agreement amongst a group of people that one thing will stand for another"
The Greek alphabet was the original alphabet that the english language use. The Gutenberg press was invented in the 1450's which meant type was a lot more accessible. It was faster at producing pieces of type. The Elementary Education Act which was introduced in 1870 by William Foster meant that children for 5-12 had to go to school meaning that type was needed. This impacted the type world a lot because a lot more people were reading and learning.
Helvetica was then designed in 1957 by Max Miedinge which was the first typeface designed which was designed for function over form. It had to be readable and legible before it's style. This was a revolutionary design from the swiss. Ariel was then designed 25 years later from Microsoft. It pretty much looks like Helvetica apart from some very minor changes. This is so Microsoft could have the most popular typeface and not pay for the font license fee. 25 years is the same amount of time a font is protected for.
In 1990 the first apple mac was invented for the average type of person, it was under $1000 so that it wasn't just for the rich.
Comic Sans was invented in 1994 by Vincent Connare, he worked for Microsoft.
In 1990 the World Wide Web was invented and given away for free by Tim Berners
In 1995 Bill Gates invented the Internet Explorer
From this lecture I learned Fred hates Microsoft, which I think I would agree with. The way they blatantly copied Helvetica shows they're rubbish.
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