Periodic Table of Typefaces

Here’s a fun way to display the creative variety of typefaces. This Periodic Table of Typefaces by designer Cam Wilde shows the 100 most popular, influential, and notorious typefaces used throughout time. See it enlarged. A print copy is available.

Below is another version of it, promoting Just My Type, the book about “that pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers, and typefaces became something we realized we all have an opinion about.”

Also see our previous blogposts:

· “Font Pain and Poetry: So Much Depends on a Curve”

· “1912 Typeface Specimen Book Now Online”

· “The Periodic Table of Storytelling”

· “The Periodic Table of the Books of the Bible”

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