Minion, also designed by Robert Slimbach and first released in 1990, was in some ways a sequel to Adobe Garamond. Despite its elegant forms, the font outlines were carefully constructed for the best performance on the hardware of its day-which, conveniently, has also made it excellent for screen rendering. By including an “expert collection” of old style figures, small caps, ligatures, and other typographic alternates, it also expanded the meaning of the word “revival” by re-introducing these advanced typographic features to a new generation of designers.
At the time, it sought to revive an historic and well-known design and adapt it for contemporary desktop publishing. Let’s look at a few of them.Īdobe Garamond, designed by Robert Slimbach, was one of the first Adobe Originals released (in 1989). Now, with over 60 typeface families available for desktop sync from Typekit, there is a wide range of Adobe type available for work spanning print, digital documents, and the web. Adobe’s primary goal was to create full-featured, timeless typefaces with a high degree of technical care-combining thoughtful type design with an awareness of how best to engineer those fonts to perform well in any conditions. Soon after, the Adobe Originals program was conceived to make new typefaces specifically for desktop publishing. Building its business around its PostScript page description language, Adobe depended on the Type 1 font format to give PostScript its powerful typographic capabilities. This is the eighth post in a series highlighting foundry partners who will offer fonts for desktop sync, including Dalton Maag, FontFont, Mark Simonson Studio, TypeTogether, ParaType, exljbris, and URW++.Īdobe’s first retail product, back in 1985, was type.
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