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Cayman Island logo with tropical fish

Cayman Islands Logo Version 1: Tropical Coral Fish

Typography is performed by typesetters, compositors, typographers, graphic designers, art directors, comic book artists, graffiti artists, clerical workers, and anyone else who arranges type for a product. Until the Digital Age, typography was a specialized occupation. Digitization opened up typography to new generations of visual designers and lay users, and it has been said that "typography is now something everybody does."

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Cayman Islands Logo Version 2: Jumping Marlin Icon

Typography traces its origins to the first punches and dies used to make seals and currency in ancient times. The typographical principle, that is the creation of a complete text by reusing identical characters, was first realized in the Phaistos Disc, an enigmatic Minoan print item from Crete, Greece, which dates between 1850 and 1600 BC.[6][7][8] It has been put forward that Roman lead pipe inscriptions were created by movable type printing,[9] but this view has been recently dismissed by the German typographer Herbert Brekle.

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The essential criterion of type identity was met by medieval print artifacts such as the Latin Pruefening Abbey inscription of 1119 that was created by the same technique as the Phaistos disc.[11] In the northern Italian town of Cividale, there is a Venetian silver retable from ca. 1200, which was printed with individual letter punches.[12] The same printing technique can apparently be found in 10th to 12th century Byzantine staurotheca and lipsanotheca.[13] Individual letter tiles where the words are formed by assembling single letter tiles in the desired order were reasonably widespread in medieval Northern Europe.

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