{"id":5315,"date":"2026-09-28T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/?post_type=product&#038;p=5315"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:56:19","slug":"history-of-type","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/en\/opleiding\/history-of-type\/","title":{"rendered":"New: History of Type"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"product-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5315\" class=\"elementor elementor-5315 elementor-5316\" data-elementor-post-type=\"product\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e385ed e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5e385ed\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50ef424 elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"50ef424\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54d852b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"54d852b\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd85eb7 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd85eb7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 15-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>T<\/p><p>his short course will explore how time, tradition, and technology influenced the making of Latin typefaces in Europe from the seventeenth century to today.<\/p><p>Delivered over three consecutive afternoons, each session will look at a distinct typographic era \u2013 Type in the Age of Enlightenment, (1650\u20131800); Type in the Age of Industry, (1800\u20131920); and Type in the Modern Age, (1920\u20131990) \u2013 and the threads that link them all.<\/p><p>In <em>Type in the Age of Enlightenment<\/em>, we will discuss how material advances and social and cultural changes shaped type making from 1650 to 1800. We will consider the influence of earlier typographers such as Christoffel van Dijck on the work of William Caslon, and the subsequent departure from renaissance typographic traditions led by John Baskerville in England, and Giambattista Bodoni in Italy.<\/p><p>In <em>Type in the Age of Industry<\/em>, we will examine how, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mechanisation divided typographic practice and made a distinction between type making as a hand-based craft and type making as a machine-led trade. We will look at the work of the Arts &amp; Crafts Movement and William Morris\u2019s fifteenth century inspired Golden Type set against the era\u2019s mechanical types including fat faces, slab serifs and sans-serifs.<\/p><p>Finally, in<em> Type in the Modern Age<\/em> we will discover how the typographic past was revived in historical typefaces such as Garamond, Bembo and Baskerville. Revivalism was accompanied by a trend for typefaces designed by artists rather than typographers, including alphabets by Eric Ravillious and Edward Bawden. To conclude we will look at how these ornamented types were balanced by typographic modernism and the arrival of Helvetica, Futura and Univers.<\/p><p>Throughout the course we will place developments against the changing role of typography and the type designer, and visit the work of the type historians who have documented and shaped how we approach type making from the Enlightenment to today<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f25914 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4f25914\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;sticky&quot;:&quot;top&quot;,&quot;sticky_offset&quot;:100,&quot;sticky_parent&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;sticky_on&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;],&quot;sticky_effects_offset&quot;:0}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-131a0bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"131a0bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"custom-add-to-cart-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/en\/opleiding\/history-of-type\/?add-to-cart=5315\">Sign me up<\/a>\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cb1fdb3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cb1fdb3\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a023868 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a023868\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 15-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Lecturer<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76391b5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"76391b5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\r\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/en\/docent\/caroline-archer-parre\/\" class=\"opleiding-docent-intro\">\r\n            <div>\r\n                <div class=\"related-image-container\">\r\n                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CarolineArcher-1100.jpg\" alt=\"Caroline Archer-Parr\u00e9\">\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n\r\n                <div>\r\n                    <h4>Caroline Archer-Parr\u00e9<\/h4>\r\n                    <div>Typography teacher and historian<\/div>\r\n                    <span class=\"opleiding-docent-readmore\">\u2013\u203a Read more<\/span>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/a>\r\n\r\n    \t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a08664 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2a08664\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-836a8a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"836a8a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Practical Information<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-473b29d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"473b29d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We are launching this new course primarily for our alumni, both from the Expert Class Type Design and from the Saturday programme, however, the classes are also open to other interested participants. 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