The Renaissance : Johannes Gutenberg & movable type ; Aldus Manutius & the Italian Old-face ; Bembo: the Italian Old-face ; Claude Garamond & the French Old-face ; Christopher Plantin & the Netherlands
The Enlightenment : William Caslon & the English Old-face ; Caslon: the last Old-face ; The king's Roman: the transition begins ; Pierre Simon Fournier & the point system ; Baskerville & typography as an art form ; The Didot family & the Modern face ; Giambattista Bodoni & the Modern face ; Bodoni: the typeface itself
The machine age : The fat-face & the slab-serif Egyptians ; Slab-serifs: the types ; Clarendon: the Fann Street Foundry ; The 19th century: technical developments ; William Morris & looking back for the way ahead ; Cheltenham: the Old-style ; The 19th century: making type ; Theodore L. De Vinne & New Century
Introduction to early modernism : Morris Fuller Benton & Franklin Gothic ; Modernism: 20th-century influences ; The Bauhaus & the New Typography ; Paul Renner & Futura ; Futura: the typeface itself ; Stanley Morison & Times New Roman ; Times New Roman: the typeface itself ; The 20th century: four American type designers ; Eric Gill & his sans-serif
After the second world war : Max Miedinger & Helvetica ; Helvetica: the typeface itself ; The International style: the impact on Europe ; Adrian Frutiger & the photo sans-serif ; Univers: the typeface itself ; Hermann Zapf & Palatino ; Palatino: the typeface itself ; American graphic design: before and after the Second World War ; Optima sans-serif: the typeface itself ; Technical developments: from letterpress to offset lithography ; Technical developments: from metal type to phototypesetting ; Frutiger: the other sans-serif
The postmodern era : The New Wave: postmodern typographic design ; Adobe and the personal computer ; Hermann Zapf: script fonts and Zapfino ; Zapfino: better with Open Type®
Digital typefoundries : The relative newcomers: larger foundries ; More relative newcomers: smaller foundries
A brief introduction to type recognition and classification
