Typographic design. Chronicle of a chronicmarginalisation

Taking advantage of the Encuentro Mundial de las Artes (World Arts Conference) held in Valencia in October, 2000, I will make a descriptive analysis of the progressive impovershiment in the knowledge of typography (understood here in the sense of a type of printed letter) on the part of graphic designers, of the general indifference that has been shown over five hundred years of the printed letter and the decolonisation of the historical and stylistic origins of available fonts that computers are responsable for, according to companies that sell them. Finally, I shall finish up by pointing out the paradox by which Internet users, for the first time in half a century, have finally realised that there are many types of different printed letters.