Broadsheet Newspaper

So now that the alphabet has been determined, and the moveable type has been made, the 1800s were seen as a time to make some typographic refinements. New fonts were created, considerations were made as to how legible letters were when arranged amongst their peers. A major change to previous methods of typeface design was to build the fonts using an intricate grid system of 64 units, each unit of which was divided into 36 smaller units for a total of 2304 little squares. New forms were achieved as they approached font formation from a more mathematical perspective, and tried to get away from the calligraphic shapes that were inherent in text written with a flat pen nib or chisel. Not only was this a time of great strides in font upgrades, it was also a time for some standardization of font sizes. Flourishes, ornaments, flowers and other decorated intials were also integrated into printed works.