Graphic Styles: 1840 to present Graphic Arts Milestones:

— 1455 Gutenberg Bible (letterpress)

Arts & Crafts

Victorian
— 1480 Intaglio printing (gravure)
— 1798 Stone lithography
— 1814 Grotesque typeface (sans serif)
— 1828 Chromolithography
1840 1840 — 1846 Rotary press (sheet-fed)
Art Nouveau
— 1865 Web press (roll-fed)

1880 1880 — 1880 Photoengraving

— 1885 Halftone process
— 1886 Linotype
Early Modern

1900 1900 — 1905 Offset lithography

Art Deco

1920 1920
— 1927 Futura typeface
Swiss / International
American Kitsch

1930 1930
Late Modern

1940 1940

1950 1950
Psychedelia

— 1957 Helvetica typeface

1960 1960
— 1960 Phototypesetting
Contemporary

— 1960 Dry ink (Xerox)

Postmodern

1970 1970 — 1970 Digital type

Digital

1980 1980
— 1984 Macintosh introduced
— 1985 Postscript introduced
— 1985 PageMaker introduced
— 1986 Linotronic imagesetter
1990 1990
— 1994 World Wide Web

2000 2000