Chaparral Pro
Chaparral Pro Regular 72 pt
Table of Contents Chaparral Pro Bold Display 72 pt
Reason for the Type.........................................................3 The Story Behing the Designer.................................4 The Story Behind Chaparral Pro..............................5 Different Styles of Chaparral Pro...........................6 Anatomy of the Type......................................................8 Chaparral Pro Display 28 pt
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Created by Adobe type designer Carol Twombly, Chaparral combines the legibility of slab serif designs popularized in the 19th century with the grace of 16th-century roman book lettering. The result is a versatile, hybrid slab-serif design, a unique addition to the Adobe Originals family of typefaces. Unlike “geometric” slab serif designs, Chaparral has varying letter proportions that give it an accessible and friendly appearance in all weights from light to bold. Like the drought-resistant brush that blooms on the arid coastal range near Twombly’s California home, Chaparral’s highly functional design is surprisingly beautiful. Chaparral Pro Display 16 pt
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“The restrictions of two-dimensional communication appealed to my need for structure and my desire to have my work speak for me. The challenge of communicating an idea or feeling within the further confines of the Latin alphabet lad me from graphic design into type design.� Carol Twombly
Chaparral Pro Semibold Italic 22 pt
The Story Behind the Designer Chaparral Pro Bold Display 26 pt
Carol Twombly (born 1959) is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. 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. She retired from type design in early 1999, to focus on her other design interests, involving textiles and jewelry. Education: Twombly attended and graduated from the Rhode Island School of
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Design (RISD) where she first studied sculpture, and later changed her major to graphic design. She credits her professors Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, whose studio she worked in, for her inspiration and stimulating her interest in typography. At Stanford University Twombly was one of only five people to graduate from the short-lived digital typography program. Awards: Twombly was the 1984 recipient of the Morisawa gold prize, and the 1994 winner of the Prix Charles Peignot, given by the Association
Typographique Internationale (ATypI) - the first woman, and second American, to receive this award given to a promising typeface designer under the age of 35. Typefaces by Twombly: Adobe Caslon (1990), Chaparral (1997), Charlemagne (1989), Lithos (1989), Mirarae (1984), Myriad (1991, designed with Robert Slimbach), Nueva (1994), Pepperwood (1993), Rosewood (1993), Trajan (1989), Viva (1993), Zebrawood (1993) Chaparral Pro Light 12 pt
The Story Behind Chaparral Pro
Chaparral Pro Bold Display 26 pt
Chaparral Pro速 is a slab-serif typeface designed by Carol Twombly of Adobe Systems and released in 2000. Chaparral Pro is available in 32 fonts, including a huge range of weights and styles such old-style and lining figures. Chaparral has numerous uses, including books and other texts of length. Due to its availability in small optical sizes, and combined with its clarity of design, Chaparral is ideal as a caption and small-print typeface. Chaparral Pro速 takes us back to the 16th century to the book lettering fonts that were popular in the days when mass printing was in its relative infancy. The slab serif was no accidental design addition of the day; it was a functional feature of the glyphs in a character set that
leads the eye along the invisible baseline for the lower serifs. This functionality applies to any serif font, but even more so to slab serifs. In more recent times, the invention of the typewriter heralded the ability for anyone who could afford one of these cheap machines to print rather than handwrite everything; the typefaces on these machines were invariably serifs and typically used the roman style. Claude Garamond was among the first to popularize use this typeface design in the 16th century. Printers of the day were moving away from the narrower Jensen-style roman typefaces and exploring wider character glyphs while still retaining the characteristic serifs and ligatures in common use at the time. Twombly
captured the essence of this style and design to provide a more contemporary version that has a warmer and more articulate feel to it. This is hardly surprising considering that Twombly has her roots in art and design and regularly enjoys these pursuits such as painting with a passion outside of her award-winning contributions to typography. Chaparral Pro is true to its origins and still conveys a times sense of class and has now become a popular standard for many print applications. Due to the broad range of available styles, Chaparral Pro performs as a workhorse, succeeding in the smallest optical sizes, up to large heavy headlines that boldly convey their message. Chaparral Pro Light 12 pt
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Different Styles of Chaparral Pro
Chaparral Pro Semibold Italic 26 pt
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Caption
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Light Display Chaparral Pro Subhead
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Chaparral Pro Italic Subhead
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Chaparral Pro Bold Italic Subhead
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Anatomy of Type
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Chaparral Pro Bold 200 pt & Chaparral Pro Light Display 16 pt
“Its sturdy slab serifs make it a natural for the web, while the curves in its organic letterforms lend it humanist warmth.� Thomas Phinney, Writer for WebINK Chaparral Pro Semibold Italic 22 pt
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Type Speciman Created by Erin Samorske Created for Introduction to Typography Created in April 2014
Chaparral Pro Light Subhead 12 pt