The whole experiment is broken down to two.

1- Manual interference
2- Digital interference

To cover the first one I needed to go "back to basics" and look how the letters are formed: writing tools. While the tools people used to write the letters of the Latin alphabet after first century CE is the direct affect of shaping the letterforms, some other factors played their parts altering the armature of the letters completely.

This document stands as a draft for introduction and background of the paper. The background section looks at the evolution of letterforms in the Latin alphabet from the Trajan's Column from the Roman Empire, until the invention of printing press. While going through that, I tried to break the evolution down to two that affected the letterform evolving process: The writing tools and economical and social situations. These two alone shaped the armature and style of the letterforms. 

Historical definitions, dates, names etc. are all cumulative knowledge of the past years of my education but as a reminder I consulted to Robin Dodd's From Guthenberg' To Opentype (2006), Ilex Press Ltd.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7w75s353wg1xzwi/meddler_intro%2Bbackground.docx