Caflisch Script: a one-axis multiple master typeface

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Max Caflisch began his distinguished typographic career as a compositor. He later worked as a typographic designer for several printing firms, assisting Jan Tschihold and Imre Reiner for three of those years. From 1943 to 1962, he was art director of Benteli AG in Berne–one of the leading printing and publishing firms in Switzerland. It was during this time, in 1952, that the Bauer Type Foundry released his Columna typeface design. In 1963, Caflisch began teaching at the School of Arts and Cras in Zurich, where he was managing director of the graphics department until 1981. From 1963 until 1978, he also taught at Zurich’s School for Graphic Techniques. Caflisch has received numerous awards for book design, mounted many solo exhibits of his work, and authored several publications on typography. Robert Slimbach, who joined Adobe’s type staff in 1987, began working seriously on type and calligraphy four years earlier in the type drawing department of Autologic in Newbury Park, California. Since then, Slimbach has concentrated primarily on designing text faces for digital technology. He has designed typefaces for the International Typeface Corporation as well as the Adobe Originals typeface families Adobe Garamond , Minion , Minion multiple master, Minion Cyrillic, Poetica, Sanvito , Utopia , and Myriad (co-designed with Carol Twombly). In 1991, he received the Charles Peignot Award from Association Typographique Internationale for excellence in type design.
Further Reading Fairbank, Alfred. “A Book of Scripts.” London: Faber & Faber, 1977. Fairbank, Alfred and Berthold Wolpe. “Renaissance Handwriting: An Anthology of Italic Scripts.” London: Faber & Faber, 1960. Gray, Nicolete. “A History of Lettering: Creative Experi - ment & Letter Identity.” Boston: David R. Godine, 1986. Specimen book produced by Fred Brady, Manger of New Typographic Development Molly Detwiler, Editor Robert Slimbach, Type Designer Laurie Szujewska, Art Director James Young, Designer Sample art designed by Jocelyn Bergen Brian Biggs Fred Brady Max Caflisch James Young Photo of Max Caflisch by Lance Hidy. Photo of Robert Slimbach by Curtis Fukuda. Gallery Illustra - tion by Kristen Wetterhahn. Special thanks to Diane Dougherty for applying her technical expertise to production and post-produc - tion issues, and to Lynn Ruggles, who gave us access to her personal library. This book was produced with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop software and the following typefaces from the Adobe Type Library: Caflisch Script, Snell Roundhand, Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch, Poetica, Tekton, Mistral, Visigoth, and Minion Multiple Master. The paper is Mohawk Superfine. Printing is by West Coast Litho, Mountain View, California. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Adobe Garamond, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Originals, the Adobe Originals logo, Adobe Photoshop, Caflisch Script, Minion, Myriad, Poetica, PostScript, Sanvito, Tekton and Utopia are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Snell Roundhand and Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch are trademarks of Linotype-Hell AG and/or its subsidiaries. Mistral is a registered trademark of Marcel Olive. Visigoth is a trademark of AlphaOmega Typography. Copyright © 1993 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
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