Robert Slimbach

Robert Slimbach (* 1956 in Evanston, Illinois ) is an American type designer and director of typeface development at Adobe Systems. His work has won many awards.

Slimbach grew up in Southern California. After the completion of the college (which he attended on a sports scholarship), he ran first a small screen printer for posters and greeting cards, and developed an interest in graphic design and typography. From 1983 to 1985 he worked for the company Autologic Inc. in Newbury Park, California, as a type designer and deepened his knowledge of calligraphy and type design. During this time he met Sumner Stone ( born 1945 ), whom later typographic director at Adobe, the Adobe Slimbach fetched. From 1985 to 1987 Slimbach worked as a freelance type designer and designed the ITC and ITC Giovanni Slimbach fonts for the International Typeface Corporation in New York. Since 1987 he has worked at Adobe Systems and has a number of very successful titles for the Adobe Originals program designed. One focus of work is on Slimbachs text fonts with classic appearance, often based on traditional metal typefaces.

As head of the font development at Adobe Slimbach has promoted multilingualism of fonts and the use of different optical sizes and contextual glyphs in OpenType fonts. Since the turn of the millennium new designs from Slimbachs hand at longer intervals appear because it reinforces dedicated to the advancement of his older writings for the much more complex OpenType format. During a font in the Type 1 format typically consists of about 200 to 500 glyphs, an OpenType font includes 1500 to 3000 glyphs. This resulted, for example, Adobe Garamond (Type 1) Adobe Garamond Pro ( OpenType), who eventually 2004, the even more sophisticated Garamond Premier Pro was put to one side.

1991 Slimbach was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot rarely awarded the Association Typographique International ( ATypI ), which is awarded at irregular intervals in type designer under 35 who have delivered an outstanding contribution to type design. Several of his writings won the annual competition TDC2 the Type Directors Club.

Besides his work as a type designer Slimbach is also known as photographic artist, especially with black and white portraits, emerged.

Font designs of Slimbach

  • Type 1 fonts and Multiple Master fonts Caflisch Script
  • Cronos
  • Adobe Garamond (1989 )
  • Adobe Jenson
  • Kepler
  • Minion (1990 )
  • Minion Cyrillic
  • Myriad ( with Carol Twombly )
  • Poetica (1992 )
  • San Vito
  • Utopia (1988)
  • OpenType fonts ( revised and new fonts) Arno Pro ( 2007) - TDC2 Winners 2007
  • Brioso Pro - TDC2 winner 2002
  • Caflisch Script Pro ( with many new glyphs) - awarded in bukva: raz Competition! ATypI 2001
  • Cronos Pro
  • Garamond Premier Pro ( 2004) - TDC2 2006 winners
  • Adobe Garamond Pro
  • Adobe Jenson Pro
  • Kepler standard
  • Minion Pro (with extended Greek character set) - awarded in bukva: raz Competition! ATypI 2001
  • Myriad Pro ( with Greek and Cyrillic character set, along with Carol Twombly, Fred Brady and Christopher Slye ) - TDC2 winner in 2000, awarded in bukva: raz! Competition of the ATypI 2001
  • Poetica Standard
  • San Vito Standard
  • Utopia standard (in different optical sizes)
  • Warnock Pro - TDC2 winner 2001

Furthermore Slimbach designed the not commercially available new Adobe typeface Adobe Clean.

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