Diacritical marks have bothered us Europeans for centuries. The development of the typographic and polygraphic industries has helped to shape the ideal proportion of accents in all countries. The Czechs began to take up the shapes of their marks only at the beginning of the 20th century due to a lack of quality accents for typesetting beautiful books. Vojtěch Preissig (1873–1944) and Karel Dyrynk (1876–1949) were among the first to work on the problem at the beginning of the 20th century; they drew Czech and Slovak marks on existing foreign typefaces. Their alternative accent shapes were a significant addition and often (intentionally) did not correspond to the morphology of the base letters. After the first of Preissig and Dyrynk’s attempts, they settled on the opinion that accents should be a formally pronounced partner to the basic character, but should not protrude either formally or proportionally.