Table of content

Organised around six sections (Typographic visionnaries, Elements of typesetting style, Old Phototypesetter tales, Q&A, The Crystal Goblet and a glossary), these pages were written by Michael Sanborn, formerly a typesetter for a company named Graphion. About his site, the author used to say that “the museum serves as both a gallery of typographic trivia and a repository of information that today's graphic designers really should know and don’t. (…) A lot of elements of typographic art have been forgotten”.

Typographic Visionnaries

This is a gallery of the individuals who, through their creative drive and passion for their craft, formed the world of type as we know it today.

• Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468)
• William Caxton (1422-1491)
• Aldus Manutius (1450-1515)
• William Caslon (1692-1766)
• John Baskerville (1706-75) [Page Lost]
• Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813)
• Frederic W. Goudy (1865-1947)
• Eric Gill (1882-1940)
• Jan Tschichold (1902-1974)
  

Other documents

• The Crystal Goblet (An excerpt from Beatrice Warde’s Lecture to the British Typographers’ Guild)
• Typographic Glossary