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Adobe Originals logo Adobe Garamond, one of the program's first fonts. 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.
[1] [2] As one of the first of the Adobe Originals family of typefaces including a swash version, [1] [2] [3] it attained a wide usage in digital typography. Regarded as the first family of italic type in digital form, [ 4 ] it is available in 21 weights to cater numerous design ideas in a single typeface family.
Samples of Calligraphic Script typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 American Scribe: AMS Euler Designer: Hermann Zapf, Donald Knuth Apple Chancery Designer: Kris Holmes
Kurinto Font Folio (open source , pan-Unicode, 21 typefaces, 506 fonts; v2.196 (July 26, 2020) has coverage of most of Unicode v12.1 plus many auxiliary scripts including the UCSUR) LastResort (fallback font covering all 17 Unicode planes, included with Mac OS 8.5 and up) Lucida Grande (Unicode font included with macOS; includes 1,266 glyphs)*
Lucida (pronunciation: / ˈ l uː s ɪ d ə / [2]) is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and released from 1984 onwards. [3] [4] The family is intended to be extremely legible when printed at small size or displayed on a low-resolution display – hence the name, from 'lucid' (clear or easy to understand).
Trajan is a serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. [2] [1]The design is based on the letterforms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman square capitals, as used for the inscription at the base of Trajan's Column, hence the name.
[4] [5] Script typefaces have evolved rapidly in the second half of the 20th century due to developments in technology and the end of widespread use of metal type. Historically, most signwriting on logos, displays and shop frontages did not use fonts but was rather custom-designed lettering created by signpainters and engravers.
Kris Holmes (born 1950, Reedley, California) 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.