Sumner Stone is a typeface designer and graphic artist. He notably designed ITC Stone while working for Adobe

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...

. A specimen of ITC Stone exists at his personal website.

Career

Stone studied at Reed College

Reed College

Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness...

, graduating with a degree in sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

 in 1967, and earned an MA in Mathematics from Sonoma State University in 1977. After graduating from Reed, he took calligraphy

Calligraphy

Calligraphy is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering . A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner"...

 lessons with Lloyd Reynolds.

1969-1971

Lettering Artist, Hallmark Cards. Kansas City, Missouri.

1972-1979

Principal, Alpha & Omega Press, Sonoma, CA.

1979-1983

Director of Typographic Development, Autologic, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA.

1983-1984

Director of Typography and Design, Camex, Inc. Boston, MA.

1984-1989

Director of Typography, Adobe Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA. Activities at Adobe included participation in development of digitizing and editing tools, design of what was to become the ITC Stone typeface family, establishing and directing the Adobe Originals program, directing the business, technical, and design aspects of producing Japanese fonts in collaboration with the Morisawa company in Japan, inventing and participating 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

California

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Typefaces

• Arepo
• Basalt
• Cycles
• ITC Bodoni
  Bodoni
  -Cold Type versions:As it had been a standard type for many years, Bodoni was widely available in cold type. Alphatype, Autologic, Berthold, Compugraphic, Dymo, Harris, Mergenthaler, MGD Graphic Systems, and Varityper, Hell AG, Monotype, all sold the face under the name ‘’Bodoni, while Graphic...
  
  
• ITC Stone
• Leaves & Straw
• Magma
• Munc
• Numa
• Scripps College Old Style
• SFPL
• Silica
• Stone Print
• Tuff

Publications

"Transitions in Letterform: The pre-Serif Letter," EJF Journal, January, 2007.

"Rock Wraps Paper," Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco, edited by Jack W. Stauffacher. San Francisco: The Book Club of California and San Francisco Public Library, 2003.

"The Imperial Roman Letter," Society of Fellows News, American Academy in Rome, Fall 2003.

"Becoming Type," Calligraphic Type Design in the Digital Age, San Francisco: Gingko Press, 2002.

Font: Sumner Stone, Calligraphy and Type Design in a Digital Age. Ditchling: Ditchling Museum and the Edward Johnston Foundation, 2000.

"Foreword," Adrian Wilson, The Design of Books. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.

On Stone, The Art and Use of Typography on the Personal Computer. San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1991. Also published as Typography on the Personal Computer, London: Lund Humphries, 1991.

"Forgotten Characters: An Adventure in Typographic Navigation," in Designer's Guide to Typography, edited by Nancy Aldrich-Reunzel and John Fennell. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1991.

"Hans Eduard Meier's Syntax Antiqua," & "The Stone Family of Typefaces: New Voices for the Electronic Age," in Fine Print on Type, San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1989.

External links

• http://www.stonetypefoundry.com/index.html
• http://www.creativepro.com/article/dot-font-type-tradition-a-digital-age