Types, Lettering and Layout

Abstract

Lettering entails the art of constructing letters of the alphabet as well as numbers for certain uses. Although today, the narrative has changed with the advancement of technology. Letters are deployed to communicate to specific audiences. The use of lettering dated back almost two thousand (2000) years ago and may have been derived from the Babylonians, Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks. Historically, the art of lettering started in ancient Egypt. This Egyptian form of writing is called hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics is a pictorial form of writing. Also, Babylon has its form of ancient writing called cuneiform. Until the year 1450, all letters were handwritten, it was a German called Johannes Gutenberg who invented the printing machine and this made room for different typefaces of lettering in use today. The two factors that control lettering are; legibility and structural shape.