Modern typography is based primarily on the theories and principles of design evolved in the 20’s and 30’s of our century. It was Mallarme and Rimbaud in the 19th century and Apollinaire in the early 20th century who paved the way to a new understanding of the possibilities inherent in typography.
The grid as a controlling principle in the form we know 7 it today still remained to be invented. Yet the first steps were already being taken towards it in the course of efforts to achieve the greatest possible order and economy in the use of typographic resources.