Design Context timeline typefaces

I havent blogged much of my design context ideas, but the book is going to be a timeline of design processes printing technology and typefaces, A lot of the info will be researched off the internet as its the technical details and the dates that will form the bulk of this. Hopefully I can make in engaging in some way as I am worried it will just be a copy paste layout job if i'm not careful.

As one timeline I want to use the dates that fonts commonly used today (by myself) were first designed. I find it fascinating that a font designed 200 or more years ago can still look great, and not outdated today. These are the fonts I found dates for and will probably include in date order:



c1450: Gutenberg Blackletter
1494: Bembo
1530: Garamond
1725: Caslon
1754: Baskerville
1790: Bodoni
1799: Didot
1845: Clarendon
1896: Cheltenham
1900: Century
1902: Franklin Gothic
1912: Cochin
1926: Din
1927: Futura
1930: Gill Sans
1931: Times
1934: Rockwell
1938: Bell Gothic
1948: Trade Gothic
1950: Palantino
1954: Univers
1957: Helvetica
1955: Courier
1962: Eurostile
1965: OCR A
1968: Avant Garde
1968: Serifa
1969: Aachen
1977: Frutiger
1987: Stone
1991: Meta
1992: Myriad
1993: Interstate
1996: Mrs Eaves
2000: Hoefler Text
2002: Neutraface
2008: Museo
2010: Eames

Hopefully the interesting bit will be to cross reference these dates with advances of computer and print technology on adjacent timelines.