All that is necessary for language to exist is an agreement amongst a group of people that one thing will stand for another.
Cuneiform System: Pictograms lost early forms and became conventional signs
1450- Johannes Gutenberg-producing/designing type through wood press
1870- William Foster brought in the education act
1919- Walter Gropius established the difference between the form and function of type
1919-33- Bauhaus brought creatives together with industrials for mass production- mass produced type to create mass produced type matter
1957- Max Miedinger created the Helvetica typeface
1982- Microsoft created the Ariel typeface, 25 years after Helvetica, enough time for intellectual property to lapse
1990- Steve Jobs creates the macintosh, the first computer to have a mouse and be affordable
There is no single approach within typography that applies to everything
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