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Adobe Jenson

Adobe Jenson
FieldValue
nameAdobe Jenson
imageAdobe Jenson.svg
imagesize250px
styleSerif
releasedate1996
based_onNicolas Jenson
creatorRobert Slimbach
foundryAdobe Type
classificationsOld-style
Venetian

Venetian Adobe Jenson is an old-style serif typeface drawn for Adobe Systems by its chief type designer Robert Slimbach. Its Roman styles are based on a text face cut by Nicolas Jenson in Venice around 1470, and its italics are based on those created by Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi fifty years later.

Jenson is an organic design, with a low x-height. It is considered a highly readable typeface and is accordingly often used in book design for body text.

Development

A specimen of [[Nicolas Jenson]]'s roman typeface, from the "Laertis" published in Venice ''ca'' 1475.
Optical sizing in Adobe Jenson

Adobe Jenson was first released in 1996 as a multiple master font. It was created using sophisticated interpolation or multiple-master technology, to create a range of weights and optical sizes suitable for different text sizes. This partial automation of font creation was intended to allow a gradual trend in styles from solid, chunky designs for caption-size small print to more graceful and slender designs for headings. It is now sold in the standard OpenType font format under the name Adobe Jenson Pro. Jenson's type used an 'M' with two-way top serifs and a 'Q' with a curled tail, both now not commonly seen; the default characters are more contemporary forms but both were included as alternate characters.

Adobe Jenson Pro

Adobe Jenson Pro is an OpenType update of the original family. The font family supports Adobe CE, ISO-Adobe (later Adobe Western 2), dingbat character sets. The family comes with 4 weights each in roman and italic, and 4 optical sizes. Supported OpenType features include Stylistic alternates, ligatures, proportional numbers, old style figures, small caps, subscripts and superscripts, ordinals, and swashes (italic fonts only).

Optical sizesCaptionRegularSubheadDisplayIntended point sizes
6–99–13.413.4–21.921.9–72

References

  • Adobe Jenson Specimen Book. Adobe Systems Incorporated, 1996.

References

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  11. "ITC Golden Type". ITC.
  12. "LTC Cloister". MyFonts.
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  14. "LTC Jenson". MyFonts.
  15. "Hightower". Font Bureau.
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