The Arts and Crafts movement began in Britain around 1880 and quickly spread across Europe, America and Japan. Inspired by the ideas of John Ruskin and the British artist and architect William Morris, it re-established a link between beautiful work and the worker and made a drastic improvement in the design of ordinary domestic objects and traditional handcrafts. It rediscovered honesty in design that is not found in mass produced products as it was based on simple forms, truth to materials and the use of nature as the source of pattern.
Typefaces were created by artists in the Arts and Crafts movement, such as Century Schoolbook in 1901 and Franklin Gothic in 1904 were both designed by Morris Fuller Benton, and Copperplate Gothic was designed by Frederic Goudy in 1905.
These typefaces are still regularly used today, especially as the various weights in the Franklin Gothic typeface give it a lot of versatility, making it ideal for Newspapers.
I like the wild design patterns and natural colours as they are the features that make them easily recognisable as The Arts and Crafts Movement. They symbolise their honesty towards nature and materials which what makes them inspirational to others.
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