Friday, August 28, 2009

Type: Minion

Minion

-designed by Robert Slimbach in 1990 for the AdobeSystems
-name comes from traditional naming system for type sizes (between nonpareil and breviry)
-inspired by late Renaissance-era
-inspired by classical, old style typefaces, a period of elegant, beautiful, and highly readable type designs
-combines the aesthetic and functional qualities that make text type highly readable with versatility of OpenType digital technology, yielding unprecedented flexibility and typographic control, whether for lengthy text or display settings
-the font family contains 3 weights and 2 widths, each with optical size variants, supporting full range of Western languages
-with many ligatures, small caps, old style figures, swashes, and other added glyphs, Minion Pro is ideal for uses ranging from limited edition books to newsletters to packaging

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