The Evolution of Type - Poster

[Mans]

At home I have a wonderful if somewhat nonsensical German poster titled "Stammbaum der Schrift", which shows the evolution of writing as a family tree. I'm at the office right now, but as I recall, Latin capitals are near the bottom, and Futura and Bodoni are at the top. :)

I should be able to upload a photo tomorrow.

/Måns

[Tim Ahrens]

Alexander Tarbeev has compiled a massive timeline at http://tfaces.narod.ru but it's in Russian (and you need to set the encoding to Unicode manually to display it properly).

[Miss Tiffany]

I have a poster which I purchased in Offenbach at the Klingspor museum. It is a tree showing how all styles fit together. Of course it doesn't include anything new, but that is ok with me.

[peterf]

"Of course it doesn’t include anything new, but that is ok with me."

mee too

;-)

pf

[Thomas Phinney]

It would be great if any of the experts could comment on the information presented in this?

Huh. That PDF in turn cites the URL for an article I wrote as its source (though it has a number of added milestones and dates, I think).

T

[buddhaboy]

Guys (and gals) thank you so much for all of the info... The webpage timeline, and that PDF are absolutely perfect for me to use as a learning/memory aid.

One of my greatest ambitions (and the reason for my ongoing research) is to eventually create a general purpose typeface that will go some way to bringing back the notion of the serif into contemporary typography... I love what Erik Spiekermann et al have done with Meta Serif... I am convinced it's the way things will go, certainly in corporate usage (anyone think it will catch on in other areas?)

Part of my research turned up an amazing fact, when I discovered I live barely 2 miles from Baskerville's birthplace... I meantioned this to a friend recently who laughed at my wanting to visit the place and wondered if I might be wanting to become a great typographer through osmosis. I know it's not so easy!

Steve