Meet your Multiple Masters
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Adobe System's Multiple Master computer fonts technology promises to reintroduce some of the qualities of metal type as well as furnish the designer with typefaces of unprecedented flexibility. Unlike traditional fonts, Multiple Master fonts exist as a set of extremes. Users can interpolate a nearly unlimited number of variations between these extremes, which allows greater flexibility in altering typefaces without the distortions common to electronic publishing. The first two fonts offered in the Master are the new sans serif types, called Myriad, and a reworked version of the renaissance roman, Minion. The Myriad family features two design axes, weight and width, according to four master designs, including light, black condensed, light expanded, condensed and black expanded. The Minion family ships with 14 primaries and has as its third axis optical size. The fonts are discussed in detail.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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The shape of things to come: new 3-D packages allow you to achieve monumental effects with type
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Three-dimensional (3D) type can have a significant impact on a document, graphic or screen display. Several software packages enable the user to create 3D type and apply a variety of effects to it. The programs include Adobe Dimensions, Pixar Typestry, Ray Dream's AddDepth and StrataType 3d, and such multimedia packages as Adobe Premier and Macromedia's MacroMind Director. The Font Bureau utilized Typestry and Dimensions to determine that there were four basic visual effects important to the creation of 3D type: the nature of the typeface design itself, extrusion of the type, modeling of the surface and beveling of the transition between two surfaces. The application of any combination of these effects constitutes a 'treatment,' which should reflect a theme for the type's application.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1993
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