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Arkansas Fonts

According to The Chicago Manual of Style, a font is: “A complete assortment of a given size and style of type, usually including capitals, small capitals, and lowercase together with numerals, punctuation marks, ligatures, and the commonly used symbols and accents.” There are six fonts with names relating to the state of Arkansas. Johannes Gutenberg has been credited with making the first font, which was set to print the Gutenberg Bible in the 1450s. Ink was applied directly to the type. The technological innovation was that the individual letters could be arranged to print words. Gutenberg used serif fonts that have extensions at the ends of the strokes that make up the letters. Serif fonts are associated with traditional printing …