| Date: 1987 Designer:
Sumner Stone / Bob Ishi Category:
20th century Serif Roman family Foundry:
Adobe Location:
California, USA Current equivalent:
ITC Stone Serif, ITC Stone Sans, ITC Stone Informal See also:
Stone Print Technologies:
Postscript
Opentype | | Famous for:
Popular hybrid sans/serif family. Applications: Book Publishing & General Purpose Text Setting Ubiquity:
Very widely used Category:
20th century Serif Roman family Stress: Angled
Serifs: Modern | | Design history:
Stone is a true late 20th century hybrid family with serif, sans serif and informal variants. Designed by the influential type director at Adobe Systems, with Bob Ishi, the face is named for both men (Ishi means stone in Japanese). This typeface formed a new proposition for the construction of a family of type; the underlying structure of all three faces is the same, with matching stem widths, capital heights and x-heights. With blunt serifs, open counters and a generous x-height, Stone (like Lucida and PMN Caecilia), was designed expressly for imaging on low-resolution laser printers. Widely licensed and a critical success on its release, Stone works very well in textbooks, and is also available with phonetic language diacritics. | |  |
