Adobe Originals

The Adobe Originals program began in 1989, when Sumner Stone hired Carol Twombly and Robert Slimbach to create a new series of type families for Adobe Systems. At the time, the desktop publishing 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 and Adobe Garamond. A reinterpretation of the Roman types of Claude Garamond 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. 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.

List of Adobe Originals families

External links

* [http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/C/C_adobe.html Adobe Originals]
* [http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayDesigners Designers of Adobe Originals]
* [http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/opticalsize.html Optical Size and Typefounding at Adobe]