Times New Roman is a serif typeface. It was commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931 and conceived by Stanley Morison,the artistic adviser to the British branch of the printing equipment company Monotype,in collaboration with Victor Lardent,a lettering artist in The Times's advertising department. It has become one of the most popular typefaces of all time and is installed on most personal computers.
In typography,a serif is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular font or family of fonts. A typeface or "font family" making use of serifs is called a serif typeface,and a typeface that does not include them is sans-serif. Some typography sources refer to sans-serif typefaces as "grotesque" or "Gothic",and serif typefaces as "roman".
Garamond is a group of many serif typefaces,named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond,generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime. Garamond-style typefaces are popular and particularly often used for book printing and body text.
Matthew Carter is a British type designer. A 2005 New Yorker profile described him as 'the most widely read man in the world' by considering the amount of text set in his commonly used fonts.
Myriad is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly for Adobe Systems. Myriad was intended as a neutral,general-purpose typeface that could fulfill a range of uses and have a form easily expandable by computer-aided design to a large range of weights and widths.
Kris Holmes is an American typeface designer,calligrapher,type design educator and animator. She,with Charles Bigelow,is the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings font families,among many other typeface designs. She is President of Bigelow &Holmes Inc.,a typeface design studio.
Calibri is a digital sans-serif typeface family in the humanist or modern style. It was designed by Luc(as) de Groot in 2002–2004 and released to the general public in 2007,with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. In Office 2007,it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint,Excel,Outlook,and WordPad. De Groot described its subtly rounded design as having "a warm and soft character".
Robert Joseph Slimbach is Principal Type Designer at Adobe,Inc.,where he has worked since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs,including the rarely awarded Prix Charles Peignot from the Association Typographique Internationale,the SoTA Typography Award,and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club. His typefaces are among those most commonly used in books.
The Type Directors Club (TDC) is an international organization devoted to typography and type design,founded in 1946 in New York City. TDC believes that type drives culture,and that culture drives type—and is dedicated to cataloging,showcasing,and exhibiting typography worldwide.
Adobe Jenson is an old-style serif typeface drawn for Adobe Systems by its chief type designer Robert Slimbach. Its Roman styles are based on a text face cut by Nicolas Jenson in Venice around 1470,and its italics are based on those created by Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi fifty years later.
Syntax comprises a family of fonts designed by Swiss typeface designer Hans Eduard Meier. Originally just a sans-serif font,it was extended with additional serif designs.
Minion is a serif typeface released in 1990 by Adobe Systems. Designed by Robert Slimbach,it is inspired by late Renaissance-era type and intended for body text and extended reading. Minion's name comes from the traditional naming system for type sizes,in which minion is between nonpareil and brevier,with the type body 7pt in height. As the historically rooted name indicates,Minion was designed for body text in a classic style,although slightly condensed and with large apertures to increase legibility. Slimbach described the design as having "a simplified structure and moderate proportions." The design is slightly condensed,although Slimbach has said that this was intended not for commercial reasons so much as to achieve a good balance of the size of letters relative to the ascenders and descenders.
Bank Gothic is a rectilinear geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders and released in 1930. The design has become popular from the late twentieth century to suggest a science-fiction,military,corporate,or sports aesthetic.
Avenir is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1987 and released in 1988 by Linotype GmbH.
Gerard Unger was a Dutch graphic and type designer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1963 to 1967,and subsequently worked at Total Design,Prad and Joh. Enschedé. In 1975,he established himself as an independent developer. A long-time guest lecturer at the University of Reading,he mentored many modern typeface designers. He lived and worked in Bussum,Netherlands.
The Adobe Originals program is a series of digital typefaces created by Adobe Systems from 1989 for professional use,intended to be of extremely high design quality while offering a large feature set across many languages. Many are strongly influenced by research into classic designs from the past and calligraphy. Adobe Originals fonts are sold separately or with Adobe products such as InDesign.
Walter Valentine Tracy RDI was an English type designer,typographer and writer.
Nokia Pure is a typeface designed by London-based type foundry Dalton Maag for Nokia. It was designed primarily for use in digital media,in Nokia devices,and mobile environments. It has been the company's main typeface since its introduction. Its designers include Vincent Connare,creator of the classic font Comic Sans.
Nirmala UI is an Indic scripts typeface created by Tiro Typeworks and commissioned by Microsoft. It was first released with Windows 8 in 2012 as a UI font and currently supports languages using Bengali–Assamese,Devanagari,Kannada,Gujarati,Gurmukhi,Malayalam,Meitei,Odia,Ol Chiki,Sinhala,Sora Sompeng,Tamil and Telugu. It also has support for Latin,with glyphs matching Segoe UI. It is also packaged with Microsoft Office 2013 and later versions of Windows. It has 3 weights :Regular,Bold and SemiLight.
