Typophile

Trajan Sans

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Reding this blog entry about Robert Slimbach's 25 years at Adobe, I stumbled into a reference to Trajan Sans, his most recent design, included in Font Folio 11.1:

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/03/robert-slimbach-25-years.html

The only other online reference I've found is a page in the Adobe Type Library Book:

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/-/9780132964371/t/ch25sec1lev18

I'm surprised I didn't notice this before, since a sans derived from the Roman inscriptional capitals is a very interesting feature, and a research that interested some very gifted talents, from Hermann Zapf to Sumner Stone. I wonder if anybody alse has got any other info about Slimbach's late typeface.

My first thought is that there are similarities to Optima et all.

Here is the inside scoop by Thomas Phinney: http://blog.webink.com/new-fonts-added/adobe-new-webink-web-fonts/

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