Sumner Stone
American typeface designer and graphic artist
Sumner Stone (born 9 June 1945) is a typeface designer and graphic artist. He notably designed ITC Stone while working for Adobe.2
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Born Jun 9, 1945.1
About
A specimen of ITC Stone is shown at his personal website.
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Early life and education
- Date not recordedReed College3
Career
Occupation: type designer.5
- Date not recordedFounded Stone Type Foundry4
Stone studied at Reed College, graduating with a degree in sociology in 1967, and earned an MA in Mathematics from Sonoma State University in 1977. After graduating from Reed, he took calligraphy lessons with Lloyd Reynolds.
1969–1971
Lettering Artist, Hallmark Cards. Kansas City, Missouri
1972–1979
Principal, Alpha & Omega Press, Sonoma, California
1979–1983
Director of Typographic Development, Autologic, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California
1983–1984
Director of Typography and Design, Camex, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts
1984–1989
Director of Typography, Adobe Systems, Inc., Mountain View, California: participated in the development of digitizing and editing tools; designed what was to become the ITC Stone typeface family; established and directed the Adobe Originals program; directed the business, technical, and design aspects of producing Japanese fonts in collaboration with the Morisawa company in Japan; invented and participated in the initial development of the Multiple Masters font software
Since 1990, Stone has owned and run the Stone Type Foundry, now located in Guinda, California.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataSumner Stone on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaSumner Stone on Wikipedia
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- 8Wikimedia CommonsSumner Stone photo by TypeParis, CC BY 3.0