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Jim Wasco

Type designer who worked at Adobe from 1989-2002 and for Monotype from 2003 until today. His typefaces in chronological order:

• 1974 to 1989: As a freelance, he assisted Jim Parkinson in the Cochin, and Kennerley revivals, an old Perspective metal type design, and Rolling Stone alphabet additional weights Elephant, Italics and Condensed, done in pen and ink. For several ad agencies, he designed the Franzia winery logo, and many other logos for packaging and advertisementsi and was mainly a lettering a logo artist.
• 1985: He produced font designs for DHL Express and SFO International Airport at Primo Angeli Inc.
• 1986 to 1989: He produced various font families like Garamond, Goudy, Eras, American Typewriter, Futura and Stymie at SlideTek using a B-Spline vector graphic system.
• 1989 to 2002: He produced fonts at Adobe Systems in Redwood City, CA. There, he designed Tekton Bold, Mythos (1993: a mythical figure caps face done together with Min Wang), Tekton GX (with David Siegel), Waters Titling word ligatures. He designed and produced the Romaji Latin characters of Heisei Maru Gothic W4 and W8, Adobe Sans and Adobe Serif. He did font production work on ITC Garamond, ITC Cheltenham, Albertus, Castellar. He helped expand Adobe Originals to Pro character sets in Jenson Pro, Minion Pro, Kepler, Sanvito Pro, Cronos, and Calcite Pro. He played an important role in the production of Multiple Master fonts.
• 2003 to present: He produced fonts at Monotype Imaging:
  • For Microsoft, he designed the family of five weights of Segoe based on Segoe Regular.
  • He directed design production and programmed OpenType features for Segoe Script and Segoe Print.
  • He designed Wasco Sans a font for the gaming and flight simulator groups at Microsoft.
  • He designed AT&T Sphere Gothic Sans fonts.
  • He designed a new slab serif family for Gatorade.
  • He directed a new design for General Electric called GE Sans.
  • He designed and directed production of various non-Latin scripts for Monotype for Armenian, Ethiopic, Khmer, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew and African language scripts including Tifinagh, N'Ko and Bamum.
  • He designed the original geometric sans font family Harmonia Sans (2011), which is a blend of contemporary geometric sans serif lettershapes and classic calligraphic proportions. Jim Wasco was aided by George Ryan in the production of the typeface family. He said: I wanted to create a simple and legible typeface by pulling the best aspects of classic geometric sans designs, such as Futura and ITC Avant Garde Gothic.
  • He directed a language expansion project for Edward Johnston's London Transport fonts, adding Cyrillic and Greek.
  • He designed a script typeface based on Ed Benguiat's calligraphy for the ITC logo in 1970 called Elegy (2010-2011). Elegy has 1546 glyphs, and was awarded at TDC2 2011.
  • He designed nine new weights for the Neue Aachen font family (2012) expanding it to 18 fonts including Italic.
  • He designed swash caps and directed Morris Freestyle.
  • He designed ITC Avant Garde Pro ligatures for the new OpenType version.
  • He designed Baskerville Cyrillic and Greek for E reader fonts (2012).
  • Daytona (2015) is a sans family that grew out of a desire to provide improved fonts for use in televised sporting events.
  • Elicit Script (2018, by Laura Worthington and Jim Wasco). A hybrid (casual and formal) scrpt typeface based on pointed pen Spencerian Script handwriting.

Linotype link. Linotype interview. FontShop link. Pic. His talk at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona was entitled OpenType features for Script Typefaces. Linotype link. Klingspor link.

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