His “ideograms” arranged lines of a poem into the shape of an object in the poem creating ballet-like movement of type on a page. The early 20th century avant-garde poet, Apollinaire, created artful arrangements of type. Typography as art has its roots in calligraphy, movable type, and the printing press, and even farther back in early hieroglyphs that evolved into alphabets. Through the selection of a typeface, the layout of type, color choice and the skillful leading and kerning of letters, the typography illustrator can elicit a reaction to type.

Typography illustrators consider the visual appearance of each letter and the letters that make up a word. Central to the work of every graphic designer, typography is much more than content and making words legible. ^ designed by Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois The Mozilla Foundation, Telefonica S.A.Typography illustrators arrange type on a page based upon the style and appearance of letters, numbers, and symbols to create appealing graphic design.^ based on Fira Mono extended by Nikita Prokopov.While it is free to download, it is under a license which forbids redistribution.

^ Envy Code R is a font designed by Damien Guard.

^ designers Howard 'Bud' Kettler, Adrian Frutiger.

^ also known as Latin Modern Mono and UM Typewriter.

^ Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is a subset of DejaVu fonts#Sans Mono.

This list of monospaced typefaces details standard monospaced fonts used in classical typesetting and printing.