Myriad (typeface)

Myriad is the name of a font that was designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly in 1992 for Adobe Type. It is one of the humanistic sans serif fonts.

The Myriad was mainly influenced by the Frutiger and sees her therefore similar, can be quickly distinguish, however, for example, by the round dot on the i.

Originally it was developed as one of the first multiple master fonts and consequently published in this format, however, now appears in the usual font formats, as multiple master could not prevail. The family was expanded in the late 1990s under the name Myriad Pro and considerably expanded in OpenType format; it consists of 46 font styles.

The optimized for screen display font Myriad Web version comes with the font pack Adobe Web Type Pro. She is also the program Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 2.0 added, the variant Myriad Web Pro version 3.0. The Adobe Photoshop Album is offered with the Adobe Reader.

Name

The name comes from myriad, which, inter alia, is an uncountable set, in this case for the infinite typefaces that could be created with the former Multiple Master technology.

Use (examples)

The design of the publications by Springer - Verlag science is determined since the early 1990s by the Myriad.

They also replaced since the launch of the Apple Xserve 2002 Garamond, under the name Myriad Set as typeface in the corporate design of Apple.

The company Rolls- Royce, LinkedIn and Mashable use the font also in their text logos.

Variants

There are a Myriad Pro, a Myriad Set ( used by Apple). The Apple-designed Podium Sans is almost identical to the Myriad.

The Latin glyphs Japanese Kozuka Gothic and Chinese Adobe Heiti correspond to those of Myriad.