The Evolution of Typography (Infographic)
Typefaces and fonts are at the forefront of design, whether it be designing a word document for work or designing a Fortune 500 website. The fonts that we choose can determine how we portray ourselves – as an individual or a business. Thanks to our friends over at Finer Hosting, a managed hosting provider, we’ve got an awesome iconographic for you. It presents some of the more common typefaces, what they are, and how to spot them in a crowd of millions.
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11 comments
Josh
December 3, 2010Awesome graphic…but where’s Comic Sans?
Mark
December 3, 2010I like the graphic, but how is this an evolution? Shouldn’t an evolution be linear.
grunion
December 3, 2010agree 100%. its interesting but not an evolution at all.
el
December 3, 2010As a Venn diagram, this is useless: What do the overlapping areas mean? What typefaces fall into those areas?
And, despite the hype, how the hell is this going to help me “spot” anything in a crowd of millions?
Domanique
December 3, 2010“an awesome iconographic”???? REALLY?!?!
This is no better than a glorified grouping of typefaces. What part of this is an “infographic”? The fact that there’s a few statements sitting on a designed background? This is not “awesome” this is TERRIBLE.
As el stated, the Venn diagram is used to show relationships where a surface area overlaps. What is this showing? That x% of Blackletter typefaces are really Sans-Serif, and that another y% are Serif? What percentage is that? How many Blackletter typefaces are there?
Why are there difference color circles behind each broad category? What does the color signify? How did the creator figure out the surface area for each category? Did they take a poll at dafont.com or off of their computer? Are they talking about physical typefaces or digital? All of them? Western typefaces? Did they even think to include non-western typefaces? How does Kanji come into this infographic?
There are HUGE holes in this infographic. Rather than doing what an infographic ought to do, (display data using graphics) this does nothing but spread disinformation.
F+
Sorry for the rant, I’m just so sick of people calling designs infographics when it’s just a step up from a children’s book: a statement coupled with a graphic.
Mike
December 3, 2010Dude! Chill out! You sound like a pompous A-Hole! Seriously! You wrote a friggin’ term paper here, man!
Nicholas Hammond
December 13, 2010Hahaha that he did. Typography is some serious stuff man, especially when put into a whimsical little presentation. I sense some jealously
Jayk
December 4, 2010Evolution is not equal to linear… evolution would branch off.
Agreed, however, that the Venn-ness of this doesn’t illustrate evolution… but it’s for grouping purposes. Anybody who actually thinks this is a Venn diagram isn’t paying enough attention.
It’s quite clear that the evolution is illustrated in the text — old style, transitional, modern… etc.
neabate
February 22, 2011There’s no evolution in the text: Egyptian are older than the rest (of the serif typefaces). “Evolution” should be erased and the colorful Venn diagram… just makes attractive a lazy “infographic”.
CGDesign
December 5, 2010Interesting presentation!
Kristof
January 7, 2011Agreed that the overlapping circles are not functional, and that it lacks some essential steps, but still, what Jayk refers to as “grouping” IS an actual evolution.
Yet it’s not well displayed at all.
The graphic suggests all typefaces came from blackletters and that sans-serif typefaces would date back to the renaissance, which is completely wrong – let aside that the chosen terms refer to visual rather than historic characteristics of type.
So I’m with Domanique, it’s no infographic, and it doesn’t display the evolution of type, rather just a rough grouping of styles with colored circles to decorate.