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About Myriad® Font Family Myriad® was designed in 1992 by Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly, and the design staff at Adobe Systems. It’s a humanist sans serif typeface, meaning that the forms are primarily based on classic romans, much like conventional or classic serifed fonts but without the serifs. Myriad also has subtle geometric shaping and monotone color, balanced by varying letter widths and open counter shapes. A readable and friendly face, Myriad works well for both text and display typography. A headline font and the playful “sketch” and “tilt” versions add versatility. Myriad® Pro, an expansion completed in the late 1990s, includes weights from Light to Black and Condensed to Extended, as well as Old style figures, Greek, Cyrillic and Central European characters.
Myriad is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Adobe Caslon, Chaparral, Charlemagne, Lithos, Nueva, Trajan and Viva are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

Carol Twombly – born 13. 6. 1959 in Concord, USA – type designer. Studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Stanford University.
1984: is awarded 1st prize in the Morisawa type competition in Japan for he Mirarae typeface. 1988: joins Adobe and designs Adobe’s first original display typefaces (Trajan, Charlemagne and Lithos).
Fonts: Mirarae (1984), Charlemagneâ„¢ (1989), Lithosâ„¢ (1989), Adobe Trajanâ„¢ (1989), Caslonâ„¢ (1990), Myriadâ„¢ (1992), Vivaâ„¢ (1993), Nuevaâ„¢ (1994) and Chaparralâ„¢ (2000).
* TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott (Editor), Bernard Stein, published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.

Robert Slimbach was born in 1956 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. Shortly after, he arrived in South 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 Incorporation” in Newbury Park, CA.
After training from 1983 to 1985, Robert 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.
Robert 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.
In 1987 he joined “Adobe Systems”. Ever since, he has been involved in developing new fonts for the Adobe Originals program. His time at “Adobe Systems Incorporation” in Mountain View, CA, has seen the production of the Utopia, Adobe Garamondâ„¢ and Minion­® font families by 1991 and Poeticaâ„¢ by 1992.