Myriad is a humanist sans-serif, a relatively informal design taking influences from handwriting. Its letterforms are open rather than “folded-up” on the nineteenth-century grotesque sans-serif model, and its sloped form is a “true italic” based on handwriting. The ‘g’ is single-storey and the ‘M’ has sloped sides on the model of Roman square capitals. As a family intended for body text and influenced by traditional book printing, text figures are included as well as lining figures at cap height. Twombly described the design process as one of swapping ideas to create a “homogenous” design but said that in retrospect she found the experience “too hard” to want to repeat.
Myriad is similar to Adrian Frutiger’s famous Frutiger typeface, although the italic is a true italic unlike Frutiger’s oblique; Frutiger described it as “not badly done” but felt that the similarities had gone “a little too far”. The later Segoe UI and Corbel are also similar.
During the 1990s, Adobe developed a release of Myriad in the multiple master format, an ambitious format intended to allow the user to fine-tune weight, width and other characteristics of the design to their preferred form. The concept was not widely-supported by third-party applications, and so most releases of Myriad have been in the form of separate font files. The concept has since been redeveloped as part of the OpenType variable fonts technology
Myriad Pro Font
Myriad Pro’s clean open shapes, precise letter fit, and extensive kerning pairs make this unified family of roman and italic an excellent choice for text typography that is comfortable to read, while the wide variety of weights and widths in the family provide a generous creative palette for even the most demanding display typography. OnlineWebFonts.COM is Internet most popular font online download website,offers more than 8,000,000 desktop and Web font products for you to preview and download. Explore Myriad designed by Carol Twombly, Robert Slimbach at Adobe Fonts. A sans serif typeface with 40 styles, available from Adobe Fonts for sync and web use. Adobe Fonts is the easiest way to bring great type into your workflow, wherever you are.
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What is the Myriad Pro® font?
An Adobe Originals design first released in 1992, Myriad has become popular for both text and display composition.
As an OpenType release, Myriad Pro expands this sans serif family to include Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, as well as adding oldstyle figures and improving support for Latin-based languages. The full Myriad Pro family includes condensed, normal, and extended widths in a full range of weights. More…
Designed by Robert Slimbach & Carol Twombly with Fred Brady & Christopher Slye, Myriad has a warmth and readability that result from the humanistic treatment of letter proportions and design detail.
Myriad Pro’s clean open shapes, precise letter fit, and extensive kerning pairs make this unified family of roman and italic an excellent choice for text typography that is comfortable to read, while the wide variety of weights and widths in the family provide a generous creative palette for even the most demanding display typography.
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Myriad Pro® Font families
The Myriad Pro® includes the following font families:
- Myriad Pro Light
- Myriad Pro Light Italic
- Myriad Pro Regular
- Myriad Pro Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiBold
- Myriad Pro SemiBold Italic
- Myriad Pro Bold
- Myriad Pro Bold Italic
- Myriad Pro Black
- Myriad Pro Black Italic
- Myriad Pro Cond Light
- Myriad Pro Cond Light Italic
- Myriad Pro Cond
- Myriad Pro Cond Italic
- Myriad Pro Cond SemiBold
- Myriad Pro Cond SemiBold Italic
- Myriad Pro Cond Bold
- Myriad Pro Cond Bold Italic
- Myriad Pro Cond Black
- Myriad Pro Cond Black Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiCond Light
- Myriad Pro SemiCond Light Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiCond Regular
- Myriad Pro SemiCond Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiCond SemiBold
- Myriad Pro SemiCond SemiBold Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiCond Bold
- Myriad Pro SemiCond Bold Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiCond Black
- Myriad Pro SemiCond Black Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiExt Light
- Myriad Pro SemiExt Light Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiExt Regular
- Myriad Pro SemiExt Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiExt SemiBold
- Myriad Pro SemiExt SemiBold Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiExt Bold
- Myriad Pro SemiExt Bold Italic
- Myriad Pro SemiExt Black
- Myriad Pro SemiExt Black Italic
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