Fonts- The Mood Enhancers
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Like any work of art, typefaces are often born as a response to their time and to the available technologies for producing type. When Gutenberg first cast molds for metal letters in the 1450s, his typeface imitated the current "typeface" of the time- manuscript lettering. Soon after, designers, including Nicholas Jenson and Aldus Manutius, designed cleaner, more open faces suited to the press, with capitals formed in a Roman, chiseled style.
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