Quake
After the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, Adobe’s Fryda Berd designed Quake to show that something constructive can come from something destructive.
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Reliq
Carl Crossgrove designed Reliq, a unique typeface reminiscent of early Greek and Roman graffiti. The Calm letters are positioned more or less normally along the baseline, while the Active letters, which are more irregular...
Rosewood
Rosewood font, like its relatives Zebrawood, Pepperwood and Ponderosa, was created by the designer trio K.B. Chansler, C. Crossgrove and C. Twombly, and has its roots in the slab serif style. The first weight...
Copal
Inspired by the carvings on meso-American monuments, David Lemon of Adobe’s type staff created Copal. It is named after a resin that was burned as incense by ancient cultures and which is used today...
Coriander
Coriander is the work of British designer Timothy Donaldson. It started out as a doodle one afternoon Donaldson was bored and uninspired. He wrote the word Coriander” and was then distracted by the sun...
Cutout
Matisse’s paper cutouts inspired Gail Blumberg, Adobe art director, to create a typeface of figures. Her biggest challenge: keeping each Cutout design in scale. It’s not easy to make a standing figure, like ‘Y,’...
Conga Brava
Conga Brava is the work of type designer Michael Harvey, a combination of the high-minded, purist letterforms of revivalist, modern calligraphers with the mundane, even crude, lettering of warehouse stenciling. The resulting lyrical yet...
Cooper
Cooper Black is a very heavy version of Cooper Oldstyle (also known simply as Cooper), an innovative typeface with rounded serifs and long ascenders designed in 1919. The Cooper family was the work of...
Critter
Originally created by Craig Frazier, San Francisco designer and illustrator, for The Alphabet Critter Playbook, the clever creatures of Critter tell you their names by the letter they represent. A helpful hint: x” is...
Cronos
Cronos is the work of Robert Slimbach, a sans serif typeface family that embodies the warmth and readability of Oldstyle Roman typefaces. It derives much of its appearance from the calligraphically inspired type of...