Back in the 1960s, Steve Jobs was a restless young man attending college classes that deep inside he knew he would never need or use.  This was of course years before he would become the co founder of Apple Computer Company, now Apple, Inc., with his long time friend and engineering genius Steve Wozniak.  To dull Jobs’ increasing restlessness as he grappled with the direction he wanted to take his life, he found solace by breaking away from the courses prescribed in his major field of study and indulging his new found love of typefaces and fonts. He found them at once artistic and meditative, and his vision of a future of computers with beautiful fonts was at least planted there.

Fonts have been works of art since they were first developed as crude letters to be copied by hand.  The first printing press brought with it the world’s first standardized fonts, and a whole new industry was born.  Today, fonts are still going strong.  We use them for everything, we read them every day, and we have them at our fingertips when creating our own works. One of the most magnificent things I have seen is this clever infographic I came across while surfing the Net outside a cafe in Connecticut.  Here it is now, for you to enjoy: