Introduction: The cultural history of the Graphic Industry and Typography is a motivating theme for this paper. In this sense, the characterization of workers of typographic workshops, in Europe, is presented in a clipping, from the perspective of Cultural History and Archeology of Industrialization added to Cultural Studies in certain aspects. Method: selective bibliographic research for the purposes is adopted, gathering books, printed articles and various electronic texts. Results: we have content that allows us to visualize the craft and culture of typographers over time, the adjustments to the industrial development of the sector, as well as issues that lead to concerns about the preservation of the socio-historical memory of this professional activity. Conclusion: The creative strategies of survival or resistance in the graphic medium include the search for formal clarification, and this 'common citizen' intellectual and practical subject of the History and Memory of the Graphic Industry must be carefully observed.