Foundry: Adobe Systems

  1. Zebrawood Typeface
    Designer: Carl Crossgrove, Carol Twombly, Kim Buker Chansler
    Of the many nineteenth-century wood type designs, the most popular seem to be variations of the Antique Tuscan style, which…
  2. Rosewood Typeface
    Designer: Carl Crossgrove, Kim Buker Chansler, Carol Twombly
    There were many typeface designs based on Clarendon letterforms seen in type catalogs from the 1850s to the 1890s. Adobe’s…
  3. Adobe Caslon Typeface
    Designer: Carol Twombly
    Based on the original Caslon face cut by William Caslon in the eighteenth century. Caslon's type, based on Dutch old…
  4. Chaparral Typeface
    Designer: Carol Twombly
    Created by Adobe type designer Carol Twombly, Chaparral combines the legibility of slab serif designs popularized in the 19th century…
  5. Minion Typeface
    Designer: Robert Slimbach
    In designing Minion font, Robert Slimbach was inspired by the timeless beauty of the fonts of the late Renaissance. Minion…
  6. Myriad Pro Typeface
    Designer: Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly, Christopher Slye, Fred Brady
    Myriad was first issued in 1992 as a multiple master Type 1 font family, which worked with a compliant font…
  7. Wendy LP Typeface
    Designer: Garrett Boge
    The Wendy family is modeled on an informal script from the 1960s. Garret Boge extended the original weight to a…
  8. Giddyup Typeface
    Designer: Laurie Szujewska
    Giddyup is a calligraphic typeface with even stroke widths reminiscent of swinging, curling lasso ropes. The dot on the i…
  9. Ex Ponto Pro Typeface
    Designer: Jovica Veljovic
    Ex Ponto is based on the rhythm of Veljovic's handwriting combing the vigor of handwritten letters with the grace of…
  10. Courier Typeface
    Designer: Howard Kettler
    Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface. The typeface was designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler in 1955. The design of…
  11. Warnock Typeface
    Designer: Robert Slimbach

    In early 1997, John Warnock’s son, Chris, approached Adobe type designer Robert Slimbach with a request to design a typeface…

  12. Serlio LH Typeface
  13. Herculanum Typeface
    Designer: Adrian Frutiger
    Named for Pompeii’s sister city, Herculanum was designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1990 for Linotype’s Type before Gutenberg series. The…
  14. Cronos Typeface
    Designer: Robert Slimbach
    Created by Adobe type designer Robert Slimbach, Cronos is a new sans serif typeface family that embodies the warmth and…
  15. Kozuka Mincho Typeface
    Designer: Masahiko Kozuka
    Kozuka Mincho is a Japanese typeface with a modern look and carefully constructed glyphs. It is based on traditional elements…
  16. Arno Typeface
    Designer: Robert Slimbach
    Arno Pro is a contemporary interpretation of 15th and 16th Century humanist type. The family includes five optical weights, decorative…
  17. Bickham Script Typeface
    Designer: Richard Lipton
    Richard Lipton's Bickham Script is a flowing, formal script typeface based on the lettering of 18th century writing masters, as…
  18. Trajan Typeface
    Designer: Carol Twombly
    The inscription on the base of the Trajan column in Rome is an example of classic Roman letterforms, which reached…
  19. Baker Signet Typeface
    Designer: Arthur Baker
  20. Poplar Typeface
    Designer: Barbara Lind
    Poplar is an Adobe Originals typeface designed by Barbara Lind in 1990 for the Adobe Wood Type series. Poplar, a…
  21. Sanvito Typeface
    Designer: Robert Slimbach
    Sanvito is an upright script typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1993. Named after one of the principal scribes of…
  22. ITC Franklin Gothic Typeface
    Designer: Morris Fuller Benton, Victor Caruso
    Franklin Gothic can be distinguished from other sans serif typefaces, as it has a more traditional double-story *g*. Other main…
  23. Kinesis Typeface
    Designer: Mark Jamra
  24. Utopia Typeface
    Designer: Robert Slimbach
    Utopia is an Adobe Originals text face designed by Robert Slimbach in 1989. It combines the vertical stress and pronounced…
  25. Bruno JB Typeface
    Designer: Jill Bell
    Bruno was designed by Los Angeles-based lettering artist Jill Bell and named after the largest of her three cats. For…
  26. Banshee Typeface
    Designer: Tim Donaldson
    Often working into the wee hours of the night while the wind howled, British type designer and lettering artist Tim…
  27. Palace Script Typeface
    Designer: Monotype Imaging
    Palace Script is an English copperplate script created for the Stephenson Blake foundry in 1923. Palace Script is sharply inclined,…
  28. Adobe Thai Typeface
    Designer: Fiona Ross
    The Adobe Thai typefaces were commissioned to from Tiro Typeworks and collaboratively designed by Fiona Ross, John Hudson and Tim…
  29. Garamond Premier Typeface
    Designer: Robert Slimbach, Claude Garamond
    Garamond Premier Pro had its genesis in 1988, when Adobe senior type designer Robert Slimbach visited the Plantin-Moretus Museum in…
  30. Letter Gothic Typeface
    Designer: Roger Robertson
    The Letter Gothic font family was designed for IBM between 1956 and 1962 for use on the Selectric typewriter. Letter…
  31. Tekton Pro Typeface
    Designer: Jim Wasco, David Siegel, Christopher Slye
    The introduction of Tekton Pro, an Adobe Originals design expanded for OpenType, makes one of AdobeÂ's most popular typefaces even…
  32. Prestige Elite Typeface
    Designer: Howard Kettler, Clayton Smith
  33. Adobe Wood Type Ornaments Typeface
    Designer: Barbara Lind, Joy Redick
    Barbara Lind and Joy Redick designed Adobe Wood Type Ornaments 1 and 2 in 1990 and 1991 for use with…
  34. Hiroshige Typeface
    Designer: Cynthia Hollandsworth
    The typeface was originally commissioned for a book of woodblock prints by the great nineteenth-century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige, whose…
  35. Albertus Typeface
    Designer: Berthold Wolpe
  36. Penumbra Typeface
    Designer: Lance Hidy
    Penumbra, designed by Lance Hidy in 1994, is an all-capital design. Hidy derived Penumbra from his poster lettering-monoline forms with…
  37. Lithos Typeface
    Designer: Carol Twombly
    Designed for Adobe by Carol Twombly, the Lithos font family is based on the lettering from ancient Greek inscriptions. Although…
  38. Photina MT Typeface
    Designer: Jose Mendoza y Almeida
  39. Stone Serif Typeface
    Designer: Sumner Stone
  40. Adobe Text Typeface
    Designer: Robert Slimbach
    Adobe Text is classified as a Transitional design (between calligraphic Renaissance and high-contrast Modern styles), with distinctive, contemporary…
  41. Kozuka Gothic Typeface
    Designer: Masahiko Kozuka
    Kozuka Gothic provides a clear image common to Kozuka Mincho, but also gives the visual strength needed for a Gothic…
  42. Stone Informal Typeface
    Designer: Sumner Stone