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Carol Twombly
Carol Twombly | 1959
Twombly is one of the most influential designers in the twentieth century before the age of 35. She started out studying architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she discovered her interest in typography and graphic design by one of her teachers, Charles Bigelow. While still a student, she began working at Bigelow & Holmes. Where Kris Holmes taught her how to draw fonts and use Ikarus Software. After completing her studies, she worked first in Boston before going to Stanford University to be part of its digital typography program run by Bigelow. Her first font was ‘Mirarae’ which won her first place in a competition sponsored by Morisawa in 1984. She became part of the font development team at Adobe, where she developed some of her most famous fonts. She was the first woman to win the Prix Charles Peignot in 1994 and was awarded multiple times by ATypI for outstanding type designers. In 1999, she retired from the field of design, but before retiring she created fonts like ‘Lithos’ and ‘Trajan’ that are inspired by ancient greek and roman typefaces. ‘Chaparral’ used a combination of traditional book lettering from the sixteenth century with a slab serif typeface of the nineteenth century. ‘Adobe Caslon’ was based on Caslon’s ‘Baroque-Antiqua’, and ‘Myriad’, an autonomous design that is shaped like an Antiqua without serifs. The typefaces of ‘Trajan’ and ‘Myriad’ are both system fonts on all Macintosh Computers. Carol Twombly made an impact in the world of type by creating original qualities of designs and adapting them to fit in a digital format.
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