Carol Twombly – born 13. 6. 1959 in Concord, USA – type designer. Studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Stanford University.
1984: is awarded 1st prize in the Morisawa type competition in Japan for he Mirarae typeface. 1988: joins Adobe and designs Adobe’s first original display typefaces (Trajan, Charlemagne and Lithos).
Fonts: Mirarae (1984), (1989), (1989), (1989), (1990), (1992), Viva (1993), Nueva (1994) and Chaparral (1997).
* TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott (Editor), Bernard Stein, published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.
Charlemagne, Lithos, Trajan, Adobe Caslon and Myriad are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
