Carol Twombly

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carol Twombly
Occupation	Type Designer
Date Of Birth	Jun 13, 1959(1959-06-13)
Age	65
Birthplace	Concord
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Gemini

Carol Twombly Biography

Carol Twombly is one of the most popular and richest Type Designer who was born on June 13, 1959 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. Fonts like Rosewood, Pepperwood and Zebrawood were created under Twombly’s artistic direction as part of an Adobe project to revive American wood type fonts from the 1880s. She designed two additional Adobe typefaces after this series: Nueva, an original design and Chaparral. These fonts reference nineteenth-century slab serif forms as well as sixteenth-century roman hand, a calligraphic format. In collaboration with Linnea Lundquist, she designed Chaparral.

Twombly joined Adobe 1988. Trajan was one of her first Adobe projects. Twombly was a graphic designer who studied historic scripts to find inspiration for creating digital fonts. In 1989, she successfully translated Roman inscriptions (stone carvings on Trajan’s column) into a modern digital design: Trajan. Next, she used her experience as a calligrapher, and an interest in paleography, to translate Carolingian verals (or decorative capital letters) into a digital typeface called Charlemagne (also 1989). This page was taken from the Anglo-Saxon Benedictional Saint Aethelwold at the British Library. Twombly also based Lithos upon historical precedents. However, he referred more to ancient Greek inscriptions than to specific models. Adobe called Charlemagne and Trajan “Modern Ancients” She also collaborated with William Caslon typeface, a well-known eighteen-century typeface, to design Adobe Caslon. This allowed her to create a digital version. Robert Slimbach was her first complete original typeface design. She worked with her co-designer to create the sans serif Myriad.

Twombly retired from Adobe and from type design in early 1999, to focus on her other design interests, involving textiles and jewelry.

A biography of Twombly and her type design career by Nancy Stock-Allen was published in 2016.

Twombly won the Morisawa Gold Prize for 1984 typeface design, in her first international competition. Morisawa Ltd., the Japanese typesetting manufacturer, was the sponsor of the competition and licensed her entry. It was then marketed as the Mirarae typeface. Twombly also won the 1994 Prix Charles Peignot award from the Association Typographique Internationale. This was the second American woman to win this award.

Carol Twombly Net Worth

Carol Twombly is one of the richest Type Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carol Twombly 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Carol Twombly was a Concord, Massachusetts native. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she studied sculpture and then switched to graphic design. Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes and Kris Holmes were her mentors and influenced her passion for typography. Her work was also influenced by Gerard Unger who was a visiting instructor at RISD while Twombly was a student. Twombly graduated from Stanford University’s short-lived digital typography program with Masters of Science degrees.

Carol Twombly, born 1959, is an American designer best known for her type design. From 1988 to 1999, she was a type designer for Adobe Systems. During that time, she contributed to the design or designed many typefaces including Trajan, Myriad, and Adobe Caslon.

Twombly left Adobe in 1999. Speaking in 2014, she cited a variety of reasons for the decision, including a lack of interest in designing fonts for onscreen display and the market failure of Adobe’s multiple master font technology. She is currently an independent artist, specializing in drawing, painting on textiles, beading shekeres, and basket-making.

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Facts & Trivia

Carol Ranked on the list of most popular Type Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Carol Twombly celebrates birthday on June 13 of every year.

What fonts did Carol Twombly create?

During her eleven+ years with Adobe, Carol has designed a number of very popular text and display typefaces. Designs like Trajan, Charlemagne, Lithos, and Adobe Caslon are inspired by classic letterforms of the past – from early Greek inscriptions, circa 400 B.C., to William Caslon’s typefaces of the 1700s.

Where does Carol Twombly live?

Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. Twombly retired from Adobe and from type design in early 1999, to focus on her other design interests, involving textiles and jewelry.

Where was Carol Twombly born?

Concord, MA

What is Myriad Pro?

Myriad Pro is the OpenType version of the original Myriad font family. It first shipped in 2000, as Adobe moved towards the OpenType standard. Additional designers were Christopher Slye and Fred Brady.

Who designed Myriad font?

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