Understanding Multiple Masters

Adobe's new Multiple Master typeface technology enables the user to create thousands of variations of a set of master, or primary, fonts. Multiple Master's most impressive typographic feature is its capacity for optical scaling. Myriad, Adobe's first Multiple Master typeface release,...

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Published inMacworld (San Francisco, Calif.) Vol. 9; no. 9; p. 264
Main Author Fenton, Erfert
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco IDG Communications/Peterborough 01.09.1992
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Design
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Electronic publishing
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Word processing
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Summary:Adobe's new Multiple Master typeface technology enables the user to create thousands of variations of a set of master, or primary, fonts. Multiple Master's most impressive typographic feature is its capacity for optical scaling. Myriad, Adobe's first Multiple Master typeface release, comes with 15 primary fonts that can be altered using 2 design axes: weight and width. Adobe's 2nd Multiple Master font, Minion, adds a 3rd design axis for optical scaling. Type designer David Berlow is experimenting with new Multiple Master faces for Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal, because Multiple Master can be used to maintain a conistent look for international publications, which may be produced with different printing processes or paper types at a variety of locations. Adobe is working on a document-interchange scheme, code-named Carousel, that uses Multiple Master technology to create fonts in a document when the originals are not available.
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ISSN:0741-8647