![]() One slider bar offered 1001 variations from sans serif to full serif. When issued, it was a Multiple Master (MM) design with two variables: serif and weight. As Gino transferred my designs into Fontographer, the type design software, we sent samples back to Adobe, where they were critiqued by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly, with help from Fred Brady and Jocelyn Bergen.Īs Penumbra is a titling type, it has only uppercase letters. We cut out samples of lettering from my posters and used them as a starting point for the design. My technical assistant on the design was Gino Lee. Penumbra is one of the few serif designs with mono-weight strokes, a quality usually associated with sans serif letterforms that helps legibility in posters and small stamps. The principle underlying this typeface design is a balance between traditional inscriptional letters from ancient Rome and Greece, of which Trajan is an example, and modernist, geometric types such as Futura, designed by Paul Renner in 1924–25. ![]() Although Penumbra is based on my large poster lettering, it is easy to read on tiny stamps. ![]() Of course, there are numerous stamps with lettering by the artist-which is often preferable to type. stamp with art-work and typeface designed by the same individual. Terry McCaffrey, director of stamp development for the USPS, told me that he thinks Mentoring a Child is the only U.S. The typeface on the mentoring stamp is Penumbra, which I designed for Adobe Systems.
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