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Sumner Stone
Sumner Stone is a typeface designer and graphic artist. He notably designed ITC Stone while working for Adobe. A specimen of ITC Stone exists at his personal website.-Career:...
hired Carol Twombly
Carol Twombly
Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces...
and Robert Slimbach
Robert Slimbach
Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-...
to create a new series of type families for Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
. At the time, the desktop publishing
Desktop publishing
Desktop publishing is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal computer.The term has been used for publishing at all levels, from small-circulation documents such as local newsletters to books, magazines and newspapers...
revolution was in full swing, and designers had a growing need for high-quality digital fonts. The first typeface families arrived that same year: Slimbach's Utopia
Utopia (typeface)
Utopia is the name of a Didone serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach, who worked at Adobe Systems, and which was released in 1989.It was one of the first typefaces to be part of the collection of selected fonts called Adobe Originals...
and Adobe Garamond. A reinterpretation of the Roman types of Claude Garamond
Claude Garamond
Claude Garamond was a French publisher from Paris. He was one of the leading type designers of his time, and is credited with the introduction of the apostrophe, the accent and the cedilla to the French language. Several contemporary typefaces, including those currently known as Garamond, Granjon,...
and the italics of Robert Granjon, Adobe Garamond captured the essence of its models while offering all the advantages of contemporary typography. Versatile and beautiful, it would provide a blueprint for the many updated classics Slimbach and Twombly would add to the collection over the coming decade.
Slimbach and Twombly are not the only designers who have created Adobe Originals. The program also features typefaces from other award-winning designers, including Richard Lipton, Jovica Veljovic, and Michael Harvey
Michael Harvey (lettering artist)
Michael Harvey MBE is an English lettering artist, teacher and writer specialising in typography, calligraphy, drawing, type design and letter carving. His work appears in many English cathedrals and on the National Gallery, London....
. A parallel Adobe Originals program was even developed to provide Japanese-language fonts. Today, it includes the works of such designers as Masahiko Kozuka and Ryoko Nishizuka.
OpenType conversion
When Adobe converted PostScript Type 1 and Multi Master fonts to OpenType CFF format, they were based on the last Type 1/MM versions from the Adobe Type Library. In addition to file format change, there were numerous other changes:- For fonts designed by Robert Slimbach for Adobe, some received major redesigns (notably Cronos), while most were re-spaced and re-kerned.
- Some formerly all-capitals fonts such as LithosLithosLithos is a glyphic sans-serif typeface designed by Carol Twombly in 1989 for Adobe Systems. Lithos is inspired by the unadorned, geometric letterforms of the engravings found on Ancient Greek public buildings...
Pro and Trajan ProTrajan (typeface)Trajan is an old style serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. The design is based on the letterforms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman square capitals, as used for the inscription at the base of Trajan's Column from which the typeface takes its name. Since the inscription and...
, received previously non-existent small-caps glyphs in the slots for lowercase characters. - All alphabetic fonts which did not already have it had the euro added.
- All alphabetic fonts added 16 extra characters, including 14 Mac "symbol substitution" characters, the litre and estimated symbols. Symbol substitution was a scheme used on Mac OS, wherein for certain characters input using a Type 1 font with standard encoding, both screen and print would pull a generic version of the glyph in the Times style from the Symbol font. In OpenType, Adobe put customized versions of the formerly generic symbol substitution glyphs in every font, with a different appearance and metric in each font. The new glyphs include partialdiff, Delta (math), integral, pi (math), product (capital math pi), root, infinity, lozenge (diamond), summation (cap math Sigma), approxequal, ohm (capital math Omega), lessequal, greaterequal.
- Unkerned accented characters received additional kerning to deal with accented characters.
- Font families that formerly included separate Type 1 expert fonts or Cyrillic fonts had these glyphs included in the base fonts in their OpenType versions.
- Multiple Master fonts were converted to individual OpenType fonts; each font consists of a former Multiple Master instance.
As a result of the changes, Adobe no longer guarantees metric compatibility between Type 1 and OpenType fonts.
List of Adobe Originals families
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| 1986 | Carta | Lynne Garell | This family was "grandfathered" by the program |
| 1986 | Sonata | Cleo Huggins | This family was "grandfathered" by the program |
| 1989 | Charlemagne | Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... |
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| 1989 | Cottonwood | Barbara Lind, Kim Buker Chansler and Joy Redick | |
| 1989 | Adobe Garamond | Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 1989 | Ironwood | Joy Redick | |
| 1989 | Juniper | Joy Redick | |
| 1989 | Lithos Lithos Lithos is a glyphic sans-serif typeface designed by Carol Twombly in 1989 for Adobe Systems. Lithos is inspired by the unadorned, geometric letterforms of the engravings found on Ancient Greek public buildings... |
Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... |
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| 1989 | Mesquite | Joy Redick | |
| 1989 | Ponderosa | Kim Buker Chansler | |
| 1989 | Trajan Trajan (typeface) Trajan is an old style serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. The design is based on the letterforms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman square capitals, as used for the inscription at the base of Trajan's Column from which the typeface takes its name. Since the inscription and... |
Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... |
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| 1989 | Utopia Utopia (typeface) Utopia is the name of a Didone serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach, who worked at Adobe Systems, and which was released in 1989.It was one of the first typefaces to be part of the collection of selected fonts called Adobe Originals... |
Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 1990 | Birch | Kim Buker Chansler | |
| 1990 | Blackoak | Joy Redick | |
| 1990 | Adobe Caslon | Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... |
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| 1990 | Madrone | Barbara Lind | |
| 1990 | Minion Minion (typeface) Minion is the name of a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1990 for Adobe Systems. The name comes from the traditional naming system for type sizes, in which minion is between nonpareil and brevier... |
Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
1991 Multiple Master, 1992 Cyrillic, 2000 OpenType |
| 1990 | Poplar | Barbara Lind | |
| 1990 | Tekton | David Siegel David Siegel David Siegel is an American motion picture screenwriter and director, and part of a long-standing writing-directing team with filmmaker Scott McGehee.-Filmography:*Suture *The Deep End *Bee Season *Uncertainty... |
Glyphset expanded by Christopher Slye |
| 1990 | Willow Willow (typeface) -ITC Willow:ITC Willow was designed by Tony Forster in 1990. Although a contemporary typeface, Willow is the reminiscent of the Scottish Arts and Crafts style made popular by painter and social reformer Jessie Marion King , and architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh of the Glasgow School... |
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| 1990, 1991 | Adobe Wood Type Ornaments | Barbara Lind and Joy Redick | |
| 1992 | Myriad Myriad (typeface) Myriad is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly for Adobe Systems. The typeface is best known for its usage by Apple Inc., replacing Apple Garamond as Apple's corporate font since 2002. Myriad is easily distinguished from other sans-serif fonts due to its... |
Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... and Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
Glyphset expanded by Fred Brady and Christopher Slye |
| 1992 | Poetica Poetica (typeface) Poetica is the name of a calligraphic, ornamental typeface designed by Robert Slimbach for Adobe Systems in 1992. As one of the first of the Adobe Originals family of typefaces, it attained a wide usage in digital typography.-External links:... |
Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 1993 | Caflisch Script | Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 1993 | Critter | Craig Frazier | |
| 1993 | Cutout | Gail Blumberg | |
| 1993 | Giddyup | Laurie Szujewska | |
| 1993 | Mezz | Michael Harvey Michael Harvey (lettering artist) Michael Harvey MBE is an English lettering artist, teacher and writer specialising in typography, calligraphy, drawing, type design and letter carving. His work appears in many English cathedrals and on the National Gallery, London.... |
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| 1993 | Mythos | Min Wang and Jim Wasco | |
| 1993 | Pepperwood | Kim Buker Chansler, Carl Crossgrove and Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... |
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| 1993 | Quake | Fryda Berd (a.k.a. Fred Brady) | |
| 1993 | Rad | John Ritter | |
| 1993 | Rosewood | Kim Buker Chansler, Carl Crossgrove and Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... |
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| 1993 | Sanvito | Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 1993 | Studz | Michael Harvey Michael Harvey (lettering artist) Michael Harvey MBE is an English lettering artist, teacher and writer specialising in typography, calligraphy, drawing, type design and letter carving. His work appears in many English cathedrals and on the National Gallery, London.... |
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| 1993 | Toolbox | Brian Strysko | |
| 1993 | Viva | Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... |
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| 1993 | Zebrawood | Kim Buker Chansler, Carl Crossgrove and Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... |
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| 1994 | Nueva | Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... |
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| 1994 | Penumbra | Lance Hidy | |
| 1995 | Alexa Alexa (typeface) Alexa is a typeface. It was designed for Adobe Systems in 1995 by John Benson, a famous United States carver of inscriptions, including those at the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. Benson modeled the friendly, casual script after his own handwriting and named it after his... |
John Benson John Benson (artisan) John Everett Benson , known as Fud, is a calligrapher, stonecarver and typeface designer who has created inscriptions for monuments including the John F. Kennedy memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, the National Gallery of Art, and the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC.John Benson was born in... |
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| 1995 | Balzano | John Benson John Benson (artisan) John Everett Benson , known as Fud, is a calligrapher, stonecarver and typeface designer who has created inscriptions for monuments including the John F. Kennedy memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, the National Gallery of Art, and the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC.John Benson was born in... |
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| 1995 | Caliban | John Benson John Benson (artisan) John Everett Benson , known as Fud, is a calligrapher, stonecarver and typeface designer who has created inscriptions for monuments including the John F. Kennedy memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, the National Gallery of Art, and the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC.John Benson was born in... |
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| 1995 | Galahad | Alan Blackman | |
| 1995 | Adobe Jenson Adobe Jenson Adobe Jenson is an old style serif typeface drawn for Adobe Systems by type designer Robert Slimbach. Its Roman styles are based on a Venetian oldstyle text face cut by Nicolas Jenson in 1470, and its italics are based on those by Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi... |
Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 1995 | Jimbo | Jim Parkinson Jim Parkinson Jim Parkinson is a Type Designer in Oakland.-Life:Parkinson studied advertising design and painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, graduating in 1963. In 1964, he worked as a lettering artist for Hallmark Cards under Myron McVay with some consultation from Hermann Zapf... |
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| 1996 | Andreas Andreas (typeface) Andreas is a humanist serif typeface designed by Michael Harvey, and licensed from the Adobe Type library. Harvey drew the lettering in 1988 as part of the book-jacket design for James F. Peck's book In the Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau and His American Students, a Yale University Press... |
Michael Harvey Michael Harvey (lettering artist) Michael Harvey MBE is an English lettering artist, teacher and writer specialising in typography, calligraphy, drawing, type design and letter carving. His work appears in many English cathedrals and on the National Gallery, London.... |
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| 1996 | Conga Brava | Michael Harvey Michael Harvey (lettering artist) Michael Harvey MBE is an English lettering artist, teacher and writer specialising in typography, calligraphy, drawing, type design and letter carving. His work appears in many English cathedrals and on the National Gallery, London.... |
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| 1996 | Cronos | Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 1996 | Kepler | Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 1996 | Mojo | Jim Parkinson Jim Parkinson Jim Parkinson is a Type Designer in Oakland.-Life:Parkinson studied advertising design and painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, graduating in 1963. In 1964, he worked as a lettering artist for Hallmark Cards under Myron McVay with some consultation from Hermann Zapf... |
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| 1996 | Ouch! | Joachim Müller-Lancé | |
| 1996 | Shuriken Boy | Joachim Müller-Lancé | |
| 1997 | Banshee | Tim Donaldson | |
| 1997 | Bickham Script | Richard Lipton | |
| 1997 | Chaparral | Carol Twombly Carol Twombly Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces... |
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| 1997 | Ex Ponto | Jovica Veljovic | |
| 1997 | Flood | Joachim Müller-Lancé | |
| 1997 | Kinesis | Mark Jamra | |
| 1997 | Kozuka Mincho 小塚明朝 | Masahiko Kozuka 小塚昌彦 | |
| 1997 | Nyx | Rick Cusick Rick Cusick Rick Cusick is a lettering artist, calligrapher, type designer and book designer.He began his lettering career designing illuminated signs for Ad/Art, Inc. in his hometown of Stockton, California, followed by study at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles where lettering artist Mortimer... |
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| 1997 | Waters Titling | Julian Waters | |
| 1998 | Fusaka | Michael Want | |
| 1998 | Immi 505 | Tim Donaldson | |
| 1998 | Postino | Timothy Donaldson | |
| 1998 | Reliq | Carl Crossgrove | |
| 1998 | Voluta Script | Viktor Solt | |
| 1999 | Blue Island | Jeremy Tankard | |
| 1999 | Strumpf | Mário Feliciano | |
| 2000 | Calcite | Akira Kobayashi | |
| 2000 | Moonglow | Michael Harvey Michael Harvey (lettering artist) Michael Harvey MBE is an English lettering artist, teacher and writer specialising in typography, calligraphy, drawing, type design and letter carving. His work appears in many English cathedrals and on the National Gallery, London.... |
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| 2000 | Silentium | Jovica Veljovic | |
| 2000 | Warnock | Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 2001 | Kozuka Gothic 小塚ゴシック | Masahiko Kozuka 小塚昌彦 | |
| 2001 | Montara | Jim Parkinson Jim Parkinson Jim Parkinson is a Type Designer in Oakland.-Life:Parkinson studied advertising design and painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, graduating in 1963. In 1964, he worked as a lettering artist for Hallmark Cards under Myron McVay with some consultation from Hermann Zapf... |
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| 2002 | Brioso | Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 2003 | Ryo Display りょう Display | Ryoko Nishizuka 西塚涼子 | |
| 2003 | Ryo Text りょう Text | Ryoko Nishizuka 西塚涼子 | |
| 2003 | Sava | Jovica Veljovic | |
| 2004 | Adobe Arabic | Tim Holloway | |
| 2004 | Adobe Hebrew | John Hudson | |
| 2004 | Adobe Thai | Fiona Ross, John Hudson and Tim Holloway | |
| 2004 | Ryo Gothic りょうゴシック | Ryoko Nishizuka 西塚涼子 | |
| 2005 | Garamond Premier | Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 2006 | Kazuraki かづらき | Ryoko Nishizuka 西塚涼子 | |
| 2007 | Arno Arno (typeface) Arno is a type family created by Robert Slimbach at Adobe. The name refers to the river that runs through Florence, the centre of the Italian Renaissance... |
Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 2007, 2010 | Hypatia Sans | Thomas Phinney | Creative Suite 3 registration incentive. Roman fonts 2007, kerned by Robert Slimbach & Miguel Sousa; Italic fonts 2010 finalized by Paul Hunt |
| 2009 | Adobe Clean | Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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| 2010 | Adobe Text | Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.-... |
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