sentences:  Typography, type-founding and typeface design began as closely related crafts in mid-15th-century Europe with the introduction of movable type printing at the junction of the medieval era and the Renaissance.Handwritten letterforms of the mid-15th century embodied 3000 years of evolved letter design, and were the natural models for letterforms in systematized typography.The scribal letter known as "textur" or "textualis", produced by the strong gothic spirit of blackletter from the hands of German area scribes, served as the model for the first text types.