About Adobe Garamond

Some of the most popular typefaces in history are those based on the types of the sixteenth-century printer, publisher, and type designer Claude Garamond, whose sixteenth-century types were modeled on those of Venetian printers from the end of the previous century. The Garamond typeface and its variations have been a standard among book designers and printers for four centuries; nearly every manufacturer of type or typesetting equipment has produced at least one version of Garamond in the past eighty years. Adobe designer Robert Slimbach went to the Plantin-Moretus museum in Antwerp, Belgium, to study the original Garamond typefaces. These served as the basis for the design of the Adobe Garamond romans; the italics are based on types by Robert Granjon, a contemporary of Garamond's. This elegant, versatile design, the first Adobe Originals typeface, was released in 1989, and includes three weights, plus a titling font, alternate characters, and an Expert Collection to provide a flexible family of text types. 

U.S. Patents Des. 318,290; 327,902; 327,903; and patent pending.
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About Adobe Jenson

Adobe Jenson captures the  essence of Nicolas Jenson's roman and Ludovico degli Arrighi's italic typeface designs. The combined strength and beauty of these two icons of Renaissance type result in an elegant typeface suited to a broad spectrum of applications. Designed by Robert Slimbach of the Adobe type design team, Adobe Jenson joins the growing family of Adobe Originals historical revivals, including Adobe Garamond and Adobe Caslon.
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About Myriad

Myriad is an Adobe Originals typeface designed by Carol Twombly and Robert Slimbach in 1992. Myriad MM, the original multiple master version of Myriad, is a humanistic sans serif design that allows the generation of thousands of individual fonts from one master typeface by interactively varying the design attributes of weight and width. Later, instances of the multiple master  were adapted for easy use as stand-alone typefaces. Myriad is useful for short text, and fills display needs in all sizes and mediums.
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About Trajan

The inscription on the base of the Trajan column in Rome is an example of classic Roman letterforms, which reached their peak of refinement in the first century A.D. It is believed that the letters were first written with a brush, then carved into the stone. These forms provided the basis for this Adobe Originals typeface designed by Carol Twombly in 1989. Trajan is an elegant typeface well-suited for display work in books, magazines, posters, and billboards.
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About Adobe Wood Type Ornaments

Key Cap Charts:

To assist you in finding your way to the various ornaments in these fonts, we have included Key Cap Character Access Charts. These charts are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If you have Acrobat installed on your computer, simply double click on the "WoodOrn1.pdf" or "WoodOrn2.pdf" file to view the appropriate key cap chart.

If you do not have Acrobat, we invite you to download a free copy of the Acrobat Reader from our Web site, located at www.adobe.com. If you do not have Web access you can order Acrobat Reader on CD by calling: 1-800-833-6687.

Background:

Barbara Lind and Joy Redick designed Adobe Wood Type Ornaments 1 and 2 in 1990 and 1991 for use with the Adobe Originals wood types. These sets of typographical ornaments are based on the unusual and intricate designs originally made in wood for use as eye-catching display work in the nineteenth-century. Adobe Wood Type Ornaments also work well with a variety of other typefaces.

Size:

The Adobe Woodtype Ornaments are designed to be used at sizes of 24 points and greater. Screen resolution is poor at smaller sizes due to the resolution limitations of screen devices. These limitations do not affect printed output, but these fonts may still be hard to make out at small sizes.
