So this week in class we began talking about the Industrial Revolution and Victorian Age. Although we didn't talk about this in depth in class, I really found the typography of this time really interesting. Since the advent of the printing press much of typography had been about developing a standard. As time progressed it wasn't just a matter of using type to show/read words, they were used as an art form. We begin to see designers really experiment with typefaces. Some designers played with the size, width, and decorative elements of letterforms. I think today we may take it for granted that we have such a wide variety of typefaces and so many appear each day, but it's something that truly began evolving during this time.
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