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Design Category
Information design, 1995
Design firm
Adobe Systems, Inc. (Mountain View, California)
Collection
(1996) Information Graphics: Design of Understanding
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Recent advances in technology and innovations in typeface design spawned the concept of a “multiple master typeface” that generates fonts of unlimited weights and widths. Myriad, the first of these type mutants, was introduced to the design community in this book, which displays the typeface in settings of varied sizes, along with sample art that demonstrates how multiple master technology solves design problems.