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    Chaparral Revision

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    Carol Twombly designed the typeface Chaparral in 1997 while working for Adobe. Chaparral was meant to combine 19th century slab serifs with 16th century old style typefaces, creating a versatile hybrid slab-serif design. Twombly graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and received a Master's in digital typography from Stanford University. She designed several popular typefaces including Trajan, Myriad, and Nueva STD. Chaparral has a unique personality from the details in its letters such as the slanted, rounded descender on the 'y'.

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    Chaparral Revision

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    Carol Twombly designed the typeface Chaparral in 1997 while working for Adobe. Chaparral was meant to combine 19th century slab serifs with 16th century old style typefaces, creating a versatile hybrid slab-serif design. Twombly graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and received a Master's in digital typography from Stanford University. She designed several popular typefaces including Trajan, Myriad, and Nueva STD. Chaparral has a unique personality from the details in its letters such as the slanted, rounded descender on the 'y'.

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    This is what i've been working on for my type specimen book

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    Carol Twombly designed the typeface Chaparral in 1997 while working for Adobe. Chaparral was meant to combine 19th century slab serifs with 16th century old style typefaces, creating a versatile hybrid slab-serif design. Twombly graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and received a Master's in digital typography from Stanford University. She designed several popular typefaces including Trajan, Myriad, and Nueva STD. Chaparral has a unique personality from the details in its letters such as the slanted, rounded descender on the 'y'.

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    Chaparral Revision

    Uploaded by

    mariekrikorian
    Carol Twombly designed the typeface Chaparral in 1997 while working for Adobe. Chaparral was meant to combine 19th century slab serifs with 16th century old style typefaces, creating a versatile hybrid slab-serif design. Twombly graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and received a Master's in digital typography from Stanford University. She designed several popular typefaces including Trajan, Myriad, and Nueva STD. Chaparral has a unique personality from the details in its letters such as the slanted, rounded descender on the 'y'.

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    1997

    Chaparral was originally created in a digital format by Carol Twombly and was meant to combine the 19th century slab serif designs with the 16th century old style typefaces making a versatile, hybrid slab-serif design. Chaparral was designed to put a modern, timeless twist to two very popular ideas. Twombly graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. She also received a Master of Science degree in digital typography from Stanford university She was one of five students to earn this degree. Twombly converted Caslon from the 1700s to a digital format , as well as designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Nueva STD. Type truly does have personality and that is definatley present in Chaparral. Chaparral is full of little nuances that make it unique The chaparral y is full of personality because of terminal on the descender is slanted and rounded off at the edges rather than having a curve. The serifs in the typeface are unlike others in its classification, such as Clarendon and Serifa, and is great to use for body copy and has recently been used for body copy in Stories & Novels which is a is a remarkable and modestly designed online collection of short stories by Franz Neumann Twomblys design is definatley an affective way to merge the two styles of type and making it feel completely new.

    Timeless lettering

    with a versatile design.

    The tail is curved down and and then curved up at a slanted slight angle.

    The bowl is interesting because it has very strong thicks and thins.

    Here the neck has lots of points and curves.

    The ear is unique at the end where it tapers out.

    This is interesting because there is no finial.

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