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This is a history of crafts related to writing, focusing on the development of Roman alphabet writing. The content revolves around the two major aspects of writing and printing fonts, as well as paper and digital files. It also examines text materials and text expression methods. Writing is not only a record of language, it is an ecology of form and content, which plays an important role in the development and inheritance of civilization, personal self-expression and cultivation, and communication between people and the world. Today, new writing tools and text carriers are constantly emerging, and writing is at an important turning point. This transition has occurred only twice in Western history. One occurred in late antiquity, when vellum books replaced ancient hand scrolls; the other occurred in the late 15th century, when Gutenberg's printing changed European book production technology. Therefore, it is necessary for us to explore the past and present of writing, to freely shape the relationship between people and writing, and to promote the development of technology and society. In the book, the author sorts out every step of change and development in the history of writing, as well as the resulting impacts, including: the invention of the alphabet; the conversion of papyrus scrolls into manuscripts in late Rome; the tradition of reading and writing in the Middle Ages; the evolution and development of various calligraphy styles; the development of Gutenberg printing; the industrialization of printing; how modernism affects writing; the development of electronic computers and the digitization of texts; etc.