Robert Slimbach
Robert Slimbach was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1956. Shortly after, he moved to Southern 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 Incorporated in Newbury Park, California. After training from 1983 to 1985, 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. 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. Since then, he has concentrated primarily on designing text faces for digital technology, drawing inspiration from classical sources. He has been involved in developing new fonts for the Adobe Originals program. His time at Adobe Systems in Mountain View, California, saw the production of the "Utopia®" (1988), "Adobe Garamond®" (1989), "Minion®" (1990) and "Poetica®" 1992 font families. In 1991, he received the Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale for excellence in type design.
Here is a full list of Type 1 typefaces designed by Slimbach:
- Caflisch Script®
- Cronos®
- Adobe Garamond
- Adobe Jenson®
- Kepler®
- Minion
- Minion multiple master
- Minion Cyrillic
- Poetica
- Sanvito®
- Utopia
- Myriad® (co-designed with Carol Twombly).
Slimbach's OpenType® families include:
- Brioso Pro
- Cronos Pro, Garamond Premier Pro
- Adobe Garamond Pro
- Adobe Jenson Pro
- Minion Pro (added Greek)
- Myriad Pro (added Greek and Cyrillic)
- Utopia Standard (added optical size variants)
- Warnock™ Pro.