| Date: 1994
Designer:
Lance Hidy
Foundry:
Adobe
Location:
USA
Current equivalent:
Adobe Penumbra Serif, Sans, Flare
See also:
Trajan by Carol Twombly
Technologies:
Postscript
Multiple Master
Opentype | | Famous for:
The world's first multiple-master font to use an axis for 'serifness'.
Applications: Advertising and Display
Ubiquity:
Averagely used
Category:
Wedge Serif Titling Capitals
Stress: Slight angled stress
Serifs: Wedge and Sans Serif | | Design history:
Lance Hidy is a well-known American poster designer, whose own monoline poster lettering was the basis of this type. Ranging through four serif variations and four weights of each, this is a set of titling capitals based on classical Roman proportions, but also showing modernist characteristics.The resulting versatility alows for a wide range of uses, and was originally released as a multiple master (MM) type. This was a technology devised by Adobe to allow users to set parameters for intermediate weights or styles between two or more opposing axes (i.e. sans to serif, or light to black) in the design master. | |  |
