Robert Slimbach
- January 8, 2024
- Type Designer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Robert Slimbach |
| Occupation | Type Designer |
| Date Of Birth | Dec 15, 1956(1956-12-15) |
| Age | 68 |
| Birthplace | Evanston |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | Illinois |
| Horoscope | Sagittarius |
Robert Slimbach Biography
| Name | Robert Slimbach |
| Birthday | Dec 15 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place Of Birth | Evanston |
| Home Town | Illinois |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Sagittarius |
Robert Slimbach is one of the most popular and richest Type Designer who was born on December 15, 1956 in Evanston, Illinois, United States.
In 1987 he joined Adobe Systems. Since then, he has concentrated primarily on designing typefaces for digital technology, often drawing inspiration from classical sources. He has developed many new fonts for the Adobe Originals program. Among his early projects at Adobe were the Utopia (1988), Adobe Garamond (1989), Minion (1990) and Poetica (1992) families.
Robert Joseph Slimbach is Principal Type Designer at Adobe, Inc., where he has worked since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely awarded Prix Charles Peignot from the Association Typographique Internationale, the SoTA Typography Award, and repeated TDC awards from the Type Directors Club. His typefaces are among those most commonly used in books.
Robert Slimbach Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Type Designer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Robert Slimbach is one of the richest Type Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Slimbach 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Slimbach was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1956. Shortly after, he moved to Southern California where he spent his childhood and his youth. After attending UCLA on an athletics scholarship, he developed an interest in graphic design and typefaces while running a small screen printshop for manufacturing posters and greeting cards. This work brought him into contact with Autologic Incorporated in Newbury Park, California. After training from 1983 to 1985, Slimbach worked as a type designer with Autologic Incorporation. There he received further training, not just as a type designer but also as a calligrapher. Slimbach was then self-employed for two years as a freelance type designer, during which developed the two typefaces ITC Slimbach and ITC Giovanni for the International Typeface Corporation. He later commented of this period that “I wasn’t really making enough money to live on.”
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Robert Ranked on the list of most popular Type Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Robert Slimbach celebrates birthday on December 15 of every year.