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The ISTD Society was founded in July 1928 as the British Typographer’ s guide. Seven like-minded typographers met to create a society aiming “to place a bona fide typographer in every printing office and advertising agency that is worthy of the name,” to “raise the standard british typography both by percept and by practice.”

In the early 1950s the name was changed to the Society of Typographic Designers, STD. Nearly 50 years later , to recognise growing influence in the other countries, STD became ISTD; the International Society of Typographic Designers.

From the time, when the -de facto- medium of communication -& the typographer- was print, they continued to transform their practice to address existing and emerging media.