Arno (typeface)
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| Typeface | Arno |
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| Category | Serif |
| Classifications | Old-style serif |
| Designer(s) | Robert Slimbach |
| Foundry | Adobe Type |
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Arno is a type family created by Robert Slimbach at Adobe.[1] The name refers to the river that runs through Florence, the centre of the Italian Renaissance.
The retail Arno Pro family consists of 3 (4 for Display fonts) weights in roman and italic, 5 optical sizes. Each font supports Adobe CE, Adobe Western 2, Cyrillic (with polytonic), Greek, Latin Extended, Vietnamese, dingbats character sets. Supported OpenType features include Titling Capitals, Stylistic alterntes, ligatures, proportional numbers, old style figures, small caps, subscripts and superscripts, ordinals, swashes (italic fonts only).
| Optical sizes | Caption | Small Text | Regular | Subhead | Display |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intended point sizes | -8.4 | 8.5-10.9 | 11-13.9 | 14-21.4 | 21.5+ |
[edit] Availability
This font family is included with Adobe Creative Suite 3, Adobe Font Folio 11.
[edit] Awards
It was a winning entry in the Type Directors Club 2007 Type Design Competition (TDC2), under the Type System / Superfamily category.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Adobe - Fonts : Arno Pro
- ^ Type Directors Club : News : TDC2 2007 Results. Type Directors Club (2007). Retrieved on 2008-02-17.
