Stone Type Specimen Poster

The type specimen poster’s main objective is to showcase a typeface and provide information about its designer and history and use.

HISTORY

The Stone Serif font family, as part of the ITC Stone font family, was designed by Sumner Stone in 1987 while he was a Director of Typography at Adobe Systems.

During that time, he undertook an ambitious project of designing a super font family which could incorporate different type styles in an integrated fashion. Therefore, the creation of the ITC Stone Serif® works perfectly with the other typefaces of the Stone font family, such as ITC Stone Sans®, ITC Humanistic® and ITC Stone Informal® in newsletters, business correspondence, books and packaging.

Designer

Sumner Stone is an American typeface designer graphic artist and author.

He was born in Venice, Florida, 1945.He graduated with a degree in sociology at Reed College in Portland, 1967. After that, he studied calligraphy with Lloyd Reynolds. In 1977, he earned an MA in Mathematics from Sonoma State University.

He used to be a lettering artist and then he became a Director of Typography. He had worked for Autologic, Inc., which was really the first company to develop a successful digital typesetting machine, from1979 to 1983. After that he worked for Camex for almost one year. Then, he began work for Adobe as its first Director of Typography in 1984. While he was working here, he formulated the concept of the Adobe Originals. Since 1990, he has owned and run the Stone Type Foundry in California.

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