Before the advent of desktop publishing , the only option available to most people for producing typed ( as opposed to handwritten ) documents was a typewriter , which offered only a handful of typefaces ( usually fixed-width ) and one or two font sizes .
Before the advent of desktop publishing , the only option available to most persons for producing typed ( as opposed to handwritten ) documents was a typewriter , which offered only a handful of typefaces ( usually fixed-width ) and one or two font sizes .