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Carol Twombly

Born in 1959 in Concord, Carol Twombly studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and under Charles Bigelow at Stanford, and joined the Bigelow&Holmes studio for four years. In 1988, she joined Adobe and started designing typefaces. She was featured in 5 American Type Designers by Spurius Press. In 1994, she won the Prix Charles Peignot. In 1999, she retired from type design.

Linotype link. FontShop link. Typophile link.

A book about Twombly by Nancy Stock-Allen (Oak Knoll Press, Newcastle, 2016): Carol Twombly: Her Brief But Brilliant Career in Type Design.

Her typefaces:

• FB Californian (1987-1994, with David Berlow and Jane Patterson).
• Adobe Caslon (1990). Poster by Rachel McKay.
• Chaparral (1997).
• Charlemagne (1989).
• Lithos (1989, the famous stone-cut look face).
• Mirarae (1984). This typeface with its characteristic mid-eighties oversized x-height won her the Morisawa Gold Prize.
• Myriad (1992, with Robert Slimbach), Myriad Wild, Myriad Sketch, and Myriad Tilt.
• Nueva (1994, +Extended).
• Trajan (1989, Adobe).
• Viva (1993).
• The Western typefaces Pepperwood (1994), Rosewood (1994), Ponderosa (1990) and Zebrawood, all co-designed with Kim Buker Chansler and Carl Crossgrove. Pepperwood was patterned after a 1877 wood type by Vanderburgh, Wells and Company. [Caution: Some say that she did *not* co-design these typefaces, contradicting MyFonts and other sources.]

View the typefaces made by Carol Twombly.

EXTERNAL LINKS
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INTERNAL LINKS
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