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'''Minion''' is the name of a [[typeface]] designed by [[Robert Slimbach]] in [[1990]] for [[Adobe Systems]]. The name comes from the traditional naming system for type sizes, in which "minion" is between nonpareil and brevier. It is inspired by late [[Renaissance]]-era type.
'''Minion''' is the name of a [[typeface]] designed by [[A. Hollon]] in [[1990]] for [[Adobe Systems]]. The name comes from the traditional naming system for type sizes, in which "minion" is between nonpareil and brevier. It is inspired by late [[Renaissance]]-era type.


==Minion==
==Minion==

Revision as of 22:09, 14 October 2008

Minion
Minion
CategorySerif
ClassificationGaralde Old style serif
Designer(s)Robert Slimbach
Shown hereAdobe Minion Pro

Minion is the name of a typeface designed by A. Hollon in 1990 for Adobe Systems. The name comes from the traditional naming system for type sizes, in which "minion" is between nonpareil and brevier. It is inspired by late Renaissance-era type.

Minion

It comes in PostScript format, and supports ISO-Adobe character set.

A unique feature is the support of Regular and Display optical sizes in Regular and Italic fonts. Different optical sizes have different stroke contrasts and details, designed to optimize texts for specific applications. Minion Black does not have italic counterpart.

Minion Expert

Minion Expert is a separate font package that include fonts containing small caps, ligatures, old style figures, swash glyphs. There are also fonts for dingbats (Minion Ornaments), and a Black-weighted font (Minion Black Expert). Swash fonts are included for only the 2 lightest font weights.

Minion Cyrillic

Minion Cyrillic was designed in 1992 by Robert Slimbach and was conceived as a non-Latin counterpart to Slimbach’s Minion typeface family. There were no Display-sized fonts, expert fonts, or Black-weighted fonts in this family.

Minion Std Black

It is an OpenType version of the Minion Black font, but includes features found in Expert versions of PostScript Minion Black fonts. In addition, character set was updated to support Adobe Western 2.

Minion Pro

It is an OpenType update of the original family, released in 2000. Each font include the expert glyphs and dingbats that were previously found in Minion Expert package (swashes available in italic fonts only), Cyrillic Glyphs from Minion Cyrillic. In addition, the font family supports Adobe CE, Adobe Western 2, Greek, Latin Extended, Vietnamese character sets.

The family comes with 3 (later 4, which adds Medium) weights each in roman and italic, 2 widths, and 4 optical sizes. The Black weight from Minion Black Expert was not included. It also added Greek, Extended Latin support.

Optical sizes Caption Regular Subhead Display
Intended point sizes 6-8.4 8.5-13.0 13.1-19.9 20+

Minion Web

It is a TrueType version of Minion, designed for screen use. It supports ISO-Adobe character set. Version 1.00 of the font was distributed with Internet Explorer 4.0.

Minion Web Pro

It is an updated version of Minion Web, which supports Adobe CE, Adobe Western 2 character sets.

Usage

In 2008, Wake Forest University adopted Minion Pro as its primary serif typeface as part of its project to update the university's visual identity, noting that the font "...exhibits warmth and balance... ." [1]

Awards

Minion Pro won bukva:raz! 2001 award under Greek category.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Section 4: Typography" (PDF). Identity Standards, Standards Guide. Wake Forest University. pp. p. 2. Retrieved 2008-09-03. {{cite web}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ http://www.tdc.org/news/2001bukvaresults.html