Graphic designer, scholar, type designer, calligrapher, and lettering artist from united states of america with 27 fonts including itc stone sans ii. A basque font auction took place on march 9, 2001, in bilbao and was organized by the cultural association consonni from bilbao. Developed during his tenure as director of typography at adobe systems, sumner stone created the itc stone serif font family in 1987 as part of the itc stone font family, an endeavor undertaken in response to the difficulty of mixing different type styles on one page or in one design. Itc stone solves the problem of mixing different styles of type on the same page. Click to find the best 57 free fonts in the stone style. It has an expansion slot and an optional builtin 40 mb hard disk. Sumner stone born in venice, florida, on 9 june 1945 is a typeface designer and graphic artist. Sumner stone paves the way for a renaissance in type design this is the second in a series of articles from tamye riggs, a longtime lover of type who is working with us to celebrate the twentyfifth anniversary of. Born in venice, florida in 1945, sumner stone is a major designer, and creator of the stone family. Aug 11, 2016 course work is taught by a core team of departmental staff that is complemented by an international range of visiting professionals and academics. In 1987, sumner stone completed his designs for the stone type family. Since 1990 sumner stone has been the founder of stone type foundry inc. The fonts presented on this website are their authors property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain.
The itc stone sans ii typeface family is new from the drawing board up. Typefaces show all designers show all foundries show all home go to homepage discover fonts. At the outset, stone, slimbach, twombly, and brady were all dedicated to myriad, which would become the first family of multiple master mm typefaces in the adobe originals library. Fontlab blog learning archives page 2 of 3 fontlab blog. The trappist monk whose calligraphy inspired steve jobs and. Linotype starts producing type 1 typefaces which they license to adobe. Sumner stone talks about their history and conceptual background, and examines. List of typefaces included with macos wikimili, the best. The slopes of the letters are slightly different than any font that comes preinstalled on a modern mac, and the 9 is obviously quite unique looking. Schriftportrait stone schriftsippe stone schriftsippe kaufen. Itc stone sans is a typeface designed by sumner stone, and is available for desktop, web, digitalads. A specimen of itc stone is shown at his personal website. Scripps college commissioned his revival of scripps college old style, originally designed by frederic goudy.
As a large integrated family, the stone types can be mixed successfully with each other in newsletters, business correspondence, books, and packaging. Stone designs and manufactures the typefaces, produces and maintains the web site, the specimens, and occasionally mops the floor. Stone type foundry sumner stone the stone type foundry in guinda exrumsey and expalo alto, ca, is sumner stone s outfit, which he founded in 1990. This font is a result of two brilliant minds that collaborated to create stone serif with dynamic impression, namely sumner stone and john renner in 1987. He was the art director and one of the designers of the prizewinning itc bodoni. Mar 08, 2016 the trappist monk whose calligraphy inspired steve jobs and influenced apples designs. Charlemagne, which is freely based on the decorative capitals used as versals and titling in carolingianera illuminated manuscripts. Jun 30, 2014 a family of humanist sans serif typefaces, myriad had been initiated by stone as a collaborative project in 1989. Font designed by sumner stone and free for personal use. I love typography ilt fonts, typefaces, the the lettering arts. Sumner stone is a type designer, type founder, author, and teacher. Admired for their neutrality and simplicity, when compared to other typefaces.
Around this time, spurred by a longtime passion for designing typefaces, i began knocking on the door at adobe. From 19841989 he was director of typography for adobe systems where he conceived and implemented adobes typographic program including the adobe originals. Coincidentally, ishi is the japanese word for stone, which precluded any squabbling about whose name the font would carry. Due to the popularity of sumner stones typefaces, released at the dawn of the. The art and use of typography on the personal computer sumner stone on. Welcome to a new monthly roundup of typerelated info and entertainment. Lithos, inspired by the monoline simplicity and even. Classics such as ff din and proxima nova, or try out new typefaces like neue haas unica. Stone in 1990, stone type foundry designs and produces new typefaces and creates custom designs for a diverse range of clients including mobil, general motors, stanford university, and the san francisco public library. Each has been carefully designed to work at their best in the size for which it would be used.
Sumner is a soft edge, sanserif typeface built carefully for you. In 1992, john renner finished designing phonetic companion faces for itc stone sans and itc stone serif. The basis of this family is another sumner stone typeface called stone print, which he designed for the magazine of the same name. Toronto 1984, susan kare athens 1984, susan kare, slab serif. But the typefaces im going to mention here are all relatively recent, and all firmly in the mold of the humanist sans. Jul 20, 2001 its elegantly designed, using another of sumner stones text typefaces, cycles eleven. The applied sans typeface family takes the charm of early sans serif designs and restifies it for the 21st century. No problems were discovered by our staff, and there have been no reports of problems from any of our customers. Monotype introduces sumner stones newest addition to his. He designed the stone superfamily of typefaces stone serif, stone sans, and stone informal, and his outofprint book on stone is despite.
Some are older fonts that were included with earlier versions of the mac operating system or apple apps. The family consists of three types of fonts, a serif, a sansserif and an informal style. This month, we have movies about sign painters, and eric and john gill, books about porchez, baskerville, spiekermann, and typewriter art, as well as books by steven heller and gail. Stone print is the exclusive typeface of the american graphic design magazine print. The itc stone super type family was designed by sumner stone and published by itc. Sumner stone is probably best known as the director of typography from 1984 to 1989 at adobe systems, where he led the way to make adobe a leader in the design of digital type and in the promulgation of digital typography. Type design information page last updated on 20170203 search this site. Sumner stone worked together with bob ishi of adobe to create the stone family fonts, which appeared in 1987. He became an authority on teaching reading and authored many readers and workbooks as well as a seminal book for teachers about the research on silent and oral reading and methods of teaching. Notification of license agreement this typeface is the property of international typeface corporation itc and its use by you is covered under the terms of a license agreement. He studied calligraphy with lloyd reynolds at reed college in portland, oregon, and then went to work for hallmark cards. Designing typefaces that can truly be used for both text and display is not trivial matter, so that is one of the reasons i am proud of them. Sumner stone s typefaces type design information compiled and maintained by luc devroye.
Superfamilies of closely related typefaces have become a common feature of typography in the twentyfirst century. Apple garamond 1983, designed to replace motter tektura in the apple logo. His keester and azuza typefaces won awards at the tdc2 type directors clubs type design competition 2002. This prolific type designer was born in 1941 in richmond, ca, and lives in oakland, ca. The monk who inspired steve jobs, influenced apples designs.
Trappist monk who inspired apples fonts passes away. The current page on basque typefaces is run by franck larcade at consonni and hinrich. Arepo, stone print, and sfpl are also families in this superfamily. This will be in addition to sean mitchells excellent this week in fonts feature. If anyone is aware of the typeface name please let me know. The licence mentioned above the download button is just an indication. Sumner stone, who designed the original faces in 1988, recently collaborated with delve withrington and jim wasco of monotype imaging to update the family of faces that bears his name. Drawn by thomas oldfield and loosely based on popular typefaces of the 19th century, hombre offers all the gunslinging swagger and rugged style of jesse james and his crew of outlaws. Fonts available for document support in macos sierra these fonts are available only in documents that already use the font, or in apps that request the font by name. Magma ii is a versatile sans serif typeface created by summer stone and published by stone type foundry that was designed to be suitable for text and display. International typeface corporation announces new fonts. Click to find the best 66 free fonts in the mac style.
Illustrated throughout in blackandwhite including numerous type face specimens. Sumner stone s fonts licenses for use on desktop for use on web. Sumner stone, from the photo in the frontispiece of font. The stone fonts are very legible and make a modern.
Welcome to this months roundup of typerelated info and entertainment. I dismissed the list because it was based on marketing figures from one source, fontshop, coupled with the opinions of half a dozen berlinbased typographers, but i was still incensed. The first sans serifs typefaces widely used in print were germanic in origin designs like ideal grotesk and venus. Try, buy and download professional fonts for desktop, web and apps. In the past these have included victor gaultney, thomas phinney, sumner stone, peter bilak, frantisek storm, albertjan pool, fred smeijers, john downer, and others. Sumner is a also a logotype designer, lettering artist, author, and teacher. From logos and signage, to tshirts and packaging, sumner is designed to be easily legible big or small. This list of fonts contains every font shipped with mac os x 10. The trappist monk whose calligraphy inspired steve jobs. Three cuts from 72 pt to 6 pt, shown at the same size of the same family.
Typefaces are available in both the mac and pc formats. Master of the digital age this book is an indepth exploration of the life and work of esteemed type designer, sumner stone. He notably designed itc stone while working for adobe. The extended keyboard ii that ships with these systems is the best keyboard i have ever used.
The condensed typeface design program at the cooper union is a fiveweeklong studio course that at first glance, simply teaches the basics and traditions of typeface design. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. Sumner stone talks about their history and conceptual background, and examines and discusses examples from his own work and that of other type designers, both historical and contemporary. Sumner stone designed the itc stone humanist family by blending classical serif letterforms and traditional sans serif shapes that he pulled from. Sumner is a type founder, type designer, lettering artist, author, and teacher. Sumner stone typeface designer stone type foundry inc. All current fontlab products have been tested with mac os x 10. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. Parkinson type design jim parkinson jim parkinsons parkinson type design is based in oakland, ca. Most of the capital letters in ancient rome were borrowed from the etruscans, who in turn adopted the greek alphabet the letter g came into being later, in the 3rd century bc, while the letters j, u and w emerged in the middle ages. As he worked on it, stone experimented a lot with character proportions, testing how narrow a typeface can be without losing legibility. The foundry has produced a variety of prizewinning typefaces as well as custom type designs, logotypes, and lettering. How trajan rose from the grave to become the new helvetica typographer sumner stone recalls how the movie poster font was recreated by adobe after millennia of obscurity. Sumner stone is the founder at stone type foundry inc.
Sumner stone is the designer of the itc stone, stone print, silica, arepo, cycles, and basalt typeface families. Sumner stone font designer of stone family, bodoni. Sumner stone is the founder of stone type foundry inc. We have a huge collection of around 72,000 truetype and opentype free fonts, checkout more on. Nvma titling 2014 is sumner stones attempt to rethink roman inscriptions of the early republic era 509287 bc. In reality, it was an amazing and intense summer spent with passionate people immersed. Yet there are curiosities in both its design and its execution. The trappist monk whose calligraphy inspired steve jobs and influenced apples designs. Most combined type styles, because they aren t designed to work together, often have radically different characteristics such as cap heights, stem weights, and proportions. Delivered with both the regular and condensed versions, sumner is the perfect typeface for any project. He has designed over 200 typefaces including four major superfamilies.
Itc stone sans is a typeface designed by sumner stone, and is available for desktop, web, digitalads, app, epub, and server. The art and use of typography on the personal computer. Sumner typeface stunning sans serif fonts creative market. Stone is one of maybe 500 people in the western world his estimate who make their living by designing typefaces. My paternal grandfather, clarence robert stone seems to have been the primary carrier of the text genes. It was designed by sumner stone as part of the wider itc stone series and released during stone s tenure as director of typography at adobe systems in 1987. Stone designs and manufactures the typefaces, produces and maintains the web site. Sumner stone font designer of stone family, bodoni ornaments. Is a classic medieval arrangement of the text block, with a huge bottom margin, wide outer margin, and proportionally decreasing top and inner margins, really appropriate to a twocolumn. Itc stone sans is a modern version of the humanistic sansserif subcategory. Download stone sans regular font free for windows and mac. Dec 07, 2012 the other day someone sent me a link to a website with the preposterous title of the 100 best typefaces of all time. I am also proud of the superfamily that includes cycles, a typeface that has been used for some very fine books.
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