In the digital era, the way we consume text has changed drastically since the proliferation of personal computers in the 1980s and the rapid growth of the Internet in the 1990s. Automated typesetting machines, such as the Linotype invented in the nineteenth century, changed the way information was produced, distributed, and consumed. Early printing techniques developed by Johannes Gutenberg in fifteenth-century Germany using letters cast from lead provided a catalyst for increased literacy and the scientific revolution. The evolution of typographic reproduction and display technologies has and continues to impact human culture. If you see any errors or have comments, please let us know. This tutorial is the Typography chapter from Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, Second Edition, published by MIT Press.
