Robert Joseph Slimbach is the principal type designer at Adobe, Inc.
10 Facts About Robert Slimbach
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Robert Slimbach 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.
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Robert Slimbach's typefaces are among those most commonly used in books.
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Robert Slimbach was then self-employed for two years as a freelance type designer, during which developed the two typefaces ITC Robert Slimbach and ITC Giovanni for the International Typeface Corporation.
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Robert Slimbach has developed many new fonts for the Adobe Originals program.
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In 2004, Adobe released Garamond Premier Pro, a new take on the Garamond designs, which Robert Slimbach had been working on for 15 years, since he first completed Adobe Garamond in 1989.
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Outside of work for public use, Robert Slimbach has designed Adobe's corporate font, Adobe Clean Sans and Adobe Clean Serif, which are used by Adobe in branding and user interfaces.
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Robert Slimbach designed Adobe Hand B, based on his handwriting, for use in Acrobat's digital signature feature.
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Robert Slimbach has notable skills in several fields other than type design: he went to college on a gymnastics scholarship, and he is an accomplished calligrapher and photographer.
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Robert Slimbach typefaces designed before the 2000s were first released in the PostScript Type 1 format, and later re-released in the more capable OpenType format.