“The praises of the discoverer of the ‘black art’ [Johann Gutenberg] continue to be sung right up to the present time. Mark Twain for instance says that the whole world acknowledges without hesitation that Gutenberg’s discovery was the greatest event known to man. . . .
    Goethe said in 1820 . . . : ‘The art of printing is an event from which part two of the history of the world and of art may be dated, and one which is totally different from part one, and therefore we can no longer draw conclusions about the second part from the first.’”

—Albert Kapr, The Art of Lettering; The History, Anatomy, and Aesthetics of the Roman Letter Forms, 1983.