Phil Martin designed Grad for his personal use around 1990. It is a redesign of the classic Century Schoolbook. Changes both subtle and obvious have been made and many new features have been added such as small caps, old style figures, ligatures, and swash capitals. For ten years, Grad was trapped inside Phil’s old DOS computer in an obsolete format. Working from laserprints provided by Phil and specimens of the original ATF Century Schoolbook, Mark Simonson has brought it into the 21st century as a family of three feature-rich OpenType fonts.About the designer:
Mark Simonson started his career as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1976. Early on, he worked as an art director on a number of national magazines and other publications. He was head designer and art director for Minnesota Public Radio and an art director for its sister company, Rivertown Trading Company, designing over 200 audio packages, including many by Garrison Keillor. He frequently has done lettering as part of his design projects, and in 2000 he opened his own shop specializing in lettering and type design. He has been interested in type design since college and started licensing fonts to FontHaus in 1992. He now has more than 70 fonts on the market with many more to come. Type design is now the main focus of his activities.
This package contains:
Grad Regular, Italic, Bold
OpenType fonts with standard character sets are also included for use in applications which are not fully aware of advanced OpenType features.
Copyright © 2004 Phil Martin & Mark Simonson
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