The font Minion was first released in 1990. The family contains sixty-five different styles, including 4 weights (plus italics), in 2 widths and 4 optical sizes, as well as a standalone Black version. In designing this Serif Font family, Robert Slimbach took inspiration from fonts of the late Renaissance, as he wanted to create something…
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Robert Slimbach Work (1): Adobe Garamond
One of Slimbach’s most popular fonts is Adobe Garamond. It can be seen in action in the very well known Google logo! This font was created as a contemporary revival of the Roman typefaces created by the sixteenth century engraver Claude Geramond & the italic glyphs of Robert Granjon. These styles of fonts are typically…
Who’s Who in Graphic Design: Robert Slimbach!
American Type designer Robert Slimbach was born in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in the area of Southern California. Although he is now a known designer, he surprisingly attended University of California Los Angeles on an athletic scholarship for gymnastics. He later discovered the love he had for design and typography, and worked to run…
Helvetica: A Documentary Film
A typeface of every age or the monotone voice of the type world. The creation of Helvetica, originally called Die Neue Haas Grotesk, by Miedinger and Hoffmann sparked a queue of modernist type standard and of eventual controversy. In an age of reconstructing the design standard, Helvetica was birthed out of Münchenstien, Switzerland as a…
Matthew Carter: My Life in Type
In his TedTalk titled Matthew Carter: My Life in Type, Matthew Carter, a British typeface designer for an array of widely used fonts, details his typographic journey and materialization of type throughout a time of high-speed technological innovation. I personally appreciated Carter’s candidacy in revealing the setbacks and flaws behind eventual typographic successes. It is…