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. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... ATypI is the Association Typographique Internationale, or the international typography association. ...

Biography

Slimbach was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1956. Shortly after, he moved to Southern California where he spent his childhood and his youth. After leaving college he developed an interest in graphic design and typefaces while running a small screen printshop for manufacturing posters and greeting cards. This work brought him into contact with Autologic Incorporated in Newbury Park, California. After training from 1983 to 1985, Slimbach worked as a font designer with Autologic Incorporation, where Sumner Stone also worked for a short time. There he received further training, not just as a font designer but also as a calligrapher. Slimbach was then self-employed for two years and developed the two fonts "ITC Slimbach®" and "ITC Giovanni®" for the International Typeface Corporation in New York. Incorporated City in 1872. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Southern California, also colloquially referred to as SoCal, is an informal name for the megalopolis and nearby desert that occupies the southern-most quarter of the U.S. state of California. ... Saul Basss poster for the film The Man with the Golden Arm - a highly regarded work of graphic design. ... For the origin and evolution of fonts, see History of western typography. ... The community of Newbury Park, California lies on a western portion of the city of Thousand Oaks and an unincorporated portion of southern Ventura County. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A font can mean: A member of a typeface family; or digital font - file format that encapsulates a typeface family in a database. ... Calligraphy (from Greek καλλι calli beauty + γραφος graphos writing) is the art of decorative writing. ... The International Typeface Corporation is a company that develops and provides a library of typefaces. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...

In 1987 he joined Adobe Systems. Since then, he has concentrated primarily on designing typefaces for digital technology, drawing inspiration from classical sources. He has developed many new fonts for the Adobe Originals program. His time at Adobe Systems in California has seen the production of, among others, the "Utopia®" (1988), "Adobe Garamond®" (1989), "Minion®" (1990) and "Poetica®" 1992 font families. In 1991, he received the Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale for excellence in type design. More recently, Slimbach's own roman script calligraphy formed the basis for his Brioso® typeface. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For the origin and evolution of fonts, see History of western typography. ... A digital system is one that uses numbers for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (an analog system) or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Various examples of Garamond There are several typefaces called Garamond. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... ATypI is the Association Typographique Internationale, or the international typography association. ...

Since 2000, the rate of Slimbach's new typefaces has slowed, as he has taken advantage of the new linguistic and typographic capabilities offered by the OpenType® format. Where in the 1990s a given typeface design might be instantiated in one or two fonts, with 200-500 glyphs, a typical new Slimbach work post-2000 has 1500-3000 glyphs. OpenType is a scalable computer font format initially developed by Microsoft, later joined by Adobe Systems. ... variant glyphs representing the character a (allographs of a) in the Zapfino typeface. ...

In 2004, Adobe released Garamond Premier Pro, a new take on the Garamond designs, which Slimbach had been working on for 15 years, since he first completed Adobe Garamond in 1989.

Slimbach has notable skills in several fields other than type design: he went to college on a gymnastics scholarship, and he is an accomplished calligrapher and photographer.

List of designed typefaces

Here is a full list of Type 1 and multiple master Type 1 typefaces designed by Slimbach: Multiple master fonts are an extension to Adobe Systems Type 1 PostScript fonts. ...

• Caflisch Script®
• Cronos®
• Adobe Garamond
• Adobe Jenson®
• Kepler®
• Minion
• Minion Cyrillic
• Myriad® (co-designed with Carol Twombly)
• Poetica
• Sanvito®
• Utopia

Slimbach's OpenType® families include reworkings of his previous designs as well as all-new typefaces: Adobe Jensen is a typeface created for Adobe Systems by type designer Robert Slimbach. ... Minion is the name of a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1990 for Adobe Systems. ... Adobes Myriad is the typeface which is used in Apples modern marketing. ... Specimens of typefaces by Carol Twombly. ... OpenType is a scalable computer font format initially developed by Microsoft, later joined by Adobe Systems. ...

• Arno Pro (expected in spring 2007)
• Brioso Pro — TDC2 2002 winning entry
• Caflisch Script Pro (added many typographic alternates) — bukva:raz! 2001 winner
• Cronos Pro
• Garamond Premier Pro — TDC2 2006 winning entry
• Gauge (unreleased, but to be used in future Adobe software icons^[1])
• Adobe Garamond Pro
• Adobe Jenson Pro
• Kepler Standard
• Minion Pro (added Greek) — bukva:raz! 2001 winner
• Myriad Pro (added Greek and Cyrillic, with Carol Twombly, Fred Brady and Christopher Slye) — TDC2 2000 winning entry and bukva:raz! 2001 winner
• Poetica Standard
• Sanvito Standard
• Utopia Standard (added optical size variants)
• Warnock™ Pro — TDC2 2001 winning entry

Notes

1. ^ Image of future Adobe software icons from the blog of John Nack, Senior Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop

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External links

• Adobe's biography of Robert Slimbach
• Optical Size and Typefounding at Adobe
• Adobe Originals