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Chapter 1 · A history in one line
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Notes for class
- Watch beside A short history of type, which gives the sources for every date in the film.
- Typefaces the site cannot serve, such as Helvetica, Univers, Futura and Times New Roman, appear as specimen images rendered from licensed system fonts. Literata is drawn live, from a file served beside this page.
- The nineteenth-century poster is a sketch set in today's fonts, not a reproduction. Arial's matched widths: Arial, Wikipedia; the sentence on screen measures 423.18 pixels at 44 pixels in both Helvetica and Arial, in Chrome.
- The narration is a synthetic voice (ElevenLabs). Timing follows the narration track, so a recorded voice-over can replace it cue for cue using the transcript.
- With Reduce Motion turned on in the operating system, the film keeps its fades and drops the sliding motion.
- Set in Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Mono, typefaces the Braille Institute designed for readers with low vision.
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