Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed a number of well known types, including Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems for nine years, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of many typefaces. Wikipedia
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Designers who enjoy using the graceful characters found in typefaces such as Trajan and Charlemagne should be thankful that Carol Twombly strayed from her initial artistic endeavors. During her childhood in New England, Carol spent much of her time explo store2.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-L...
Carol Twombly studied at Rhode Island School of Design and at Stanford University in the digital type program. She has designed several popular faces: Adobe Caslon, Charlemagne, Lithos, Nueva, Trajan, Viva, and worked on Myriad with Robert Slimbach . In www.public.asu.edu/~detrie/pages/fundamentals_fonts/pages...
