![]() Subsequently, Morisawa Ltd., a Japanese typesetting manufacturer and the sponsor of the competition, licensed and marketed her entry as the Mirarae typeface. In her first international type design competition, Twombly was awarded the Morisawa gold prize for her typeface design in 1984. She collaborated with Robert Slimbach to create the sans-serif Myriad, her first completely original typeface design. Adobe marketed Trajan, Charlemagne, and Lithos as "Modern Ancients." In designing Adobe Caslon, she also examined closely the well-known eighteenth-century typeface designed by William Caslon to create a modern digital equivalent. Similarly, Twombly based Lithos on historical precedents, although more generally to ancient Greek inscriptions, rather to any specific models. The specific source was a page of the Anglo-Saxon Benedictional of Saint Æthelwold in the British Library. ![]() She next drew upon her background as a calligrapher and interest in paleography to translate Carolingian versals, or decorative capital letters, into a digital typeface called Charlemagne (also in 1989). She successfully translated Roman inscriptions – stone carvings on Trajan's Column – into a modern digital design: the typeface Trajan, in 1989. As a designer, Twombly closely studied historical scripts for inspiration in creating digital fonts. One of her first projects at Adobe was Trajan. At Stanford University Twombly was one of only five people to graduate from the short-lived digital typography program with Masters of Science degrees in computer science and typographic design. Gerard Unger, a visiting instructor at RISD during Twombly's time as a student, also influenced her work. She credits her professors Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, whose studio she worked in, for her inspiration and stimulating her interest in typography. She attended and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she first studied sculpture, and later changed her major to graphic design. Education Ĭarol Twombly was born June 13, 1959, in Concord, Massachusetts. Ī biography of Twombly and her type design career by Nancy Stock-Allen was published in 2016. Twombly retired from Adobe and from type design in early 1999, to focus on her other design interests, involving textiles and jewelry. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. ![]() Myriad (1991, designed with Robert Slimbach)Ĭarol Twombly (born June 13, 1959) is an American designer, best known for her type design.You can download thousands of vintage movie posters from the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center to see the difference. Thanks to the advent of computers and design software, movie posters look a lot different than they did during Hollywood's golden age. ![]() ![]() "A lot of posters are for the lesser movies that want to pretend they're better than they actually are," typography writer Yves Peters told Vox. Instead of marketing dramatic films that premiere during awards season, it's now a common sight on the posters of B-movies and straight-to-digital/Blu-ray releases. Trajan hasn't become any less popular in recent decades, but the types of films it's used to advertise have started to shift. It wasn't long before it became the go-to font for poster designers looking to give their movies an epic feel with the options that were available on their computers. In 1992, Trajan began appearing on movie posters, starting with one for Héctor Babenco's At Play In the Fields of the Lord. It was used as one of the standard fonts in Adobe, whose software was just beginning to change how movie posters were made. In 1989, inspired by the lettering at the base of Trajan's Column (a triumphal column that celebrates 1st century Roman Emperor Trajan), a designer named Carol Twombly created Trajan. The video below from Vox explains how the seemingly simple serif design exploded into an industry cliché. The typeface is ubiquitous in movie posters, appearing on ads for everything from prestige dramas to low-budget horror flicks. You may have never heard of Trajan, but you'd likely recognize it if you saw it. ![]()
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