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Stone Type Foundry [Sumner Stone]

The Stone Type Foundry in Guinda (ex-Rumsey and ex-Palo Alto), CA, is Sumner Stone's outfit, which he founded in 1990. Born in Venice, Florida in 1945, Sumner Stone is a major designer, and creator of the Stone family. He studied calligraphy with Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and then went to work for Hallmark cards as a lettering artist. In 1979, he became type director at Autologic, and in 1984, he became the Director of Typography at Adobe Systems (until 1989). His typefaces:

• ITC Stone Sans (1992, Linotype), ITC Stone Sans II (2010, ITC), ITC Stone Sans (Adobe), ITC Stone Sans (ITC), ITC Stone Sans (Linotype). The ITC Stone family was co-designed by John Renner.
• Stone Phonetic (with John Renner, 1992).
• ITC Stone Informal (ITC), ITC Stone Informal (Adobe), ITC Stone Informal (Linotype).
• ITC Stone Serif (ITC), ITC Stone Serif (Linotype), ITC Stone Serif (Adobe).
• ITC Stone Humanist (2005, ITC).
• Stone Print (Stone Type Foundry, 1991). Designed for Print: America's Graphic Design Magazine.
• Magma II (Stone Type Foundry, 2014), Magma (2004), Magma Halo (2004) and Magma Thin (2009). These are extensive informal humanist sans text families that could be used as Greek simulation typefaces.
• Tuff (Stone Type Foundry, +Halo, +School, 2008-2009) started from his Magma. This flared informal typeface is slightly Greek in its vision, and has hints of Morris Fuller Benton's Souvenir, Stone's own ITC Stone Informal, and Dennis Pasternak's Maiandra.
• Munc (Stone Type Foundry, 2005). The uncial version of Magma. It has some Basque influences.
• Silica (Stone Type Foundry, 1993). A humanist slab serif.
• Arepo (Stone Type Foundry (1995). A modern text family related to his SFPL family developed for the San Francisco Public Library in 1999 and 2003.
• SFPL (Stone Type Foundry: minipage). Part of a new identity of the San Francisco Public Library.
• Sator (1995, Stone Type Foundry), Popvlvs (2010, Stone Type Foundry), Davanti (2010, Stone Type Foundry). Roman inscriptional typefaces.
• Cycles (Stone Type Foundry, 2004). Cycles comes in 7 optical scales: 5, 7, 9, 11, 18, 24 and 36pt, each in numerous weights and figure styles.
• Basalt (Stone Type Foundry). Basalt won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 and was first used for signage at the Cecil H. Green Library of Stanford University.
• Leaves + Straw (Stone Type Foundry). A dingbat font.
• Nvma Titling (Stone Type Foundry). Numa Titling is an Etruscan letterform used in centuries -7 through -3. While roman, it is runic and chiseled in appearance. See also Numaiota.
• Scripps College Old Style (Monotype, 1997). Scripps College commissioned his revival of Scripps College Old Style (1997, Agfa-Monotype), originally designed by Frederic Goudy. Compare with Richard Beatty's Goudy Claremont, another good revival of that family.
• From 1994-1995: ITC Bodoni Six (ITC), ITC Bodoni Twelve (ITC), ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two (ITC), ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two Std (Linotype), ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two (Linotype), ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two Pro (Linotype), ITC Bodoni Twelve (Linotype), ITC Bodoni Ornaments (ITC), Bodoni Display Figures. Based on Bodoni's original designs, there are 6, 12 and 72-point optical sizes. The family was developed under Stone's guidance who was partially aided by Holly Goldsmith (Six Roman), Janice Prescorescott-Fishman (Seventy-two Roman) and Jim Parkinson (Six Italic).
• Dignitas (2011). Commissioned by Hallmark.

At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke about The foundation of the humanist sans serif. As of 2008, his entire collection can be licensed for 20 computers in an educational lab for just 300 dollars. Scripps College pages. CV at Agfa. Bio at Linotype. Page at Emodigi. His lecture in 2007 on W.A. Dwiggins. PDF file of his work. Signature. 2012 Newyear's card. Interview by MyFonts in 2014. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

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