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Award-winning type designer Linnea Lundquist was a member of the type
design and production team at Adobe Systems for twelve years. There she
worked on design, production and testing of many of the world's most widely
used typefaces, including Optima, Sabon, Adobe Caslon, Chaparral, Tekton,
and numerous others.
She is expert in font production in various formats using various
production tools, having worked closely with both designers and software
engineers, and is experienced with the design and production of various
glyph sets (Latin, Central European, Greek, Cyrillic, etc.).
Lundquist has an undergraduate degree from Rochester Institute of
Technology in Printing Management and Technology. She studied calligraphy
and book design under Hermann Zapf (designer of Optima, Palatino, Melior,
and ITC Zapf Chancery) and typography with noted type historian Alexander
Lawson. She has done graduate work in the Book Arts at Mills College and in
Printing and Typographic History at UC Berkeley. An active calligrapher,
she organized the 2001 exhibition, lecture series, and catalog for Zapfest:
Calligraphic Type Design in the Digital Age.
With partner Ward Dunham she runs Atelier Gargoyle, offering fine lettering
and a unique line of calligraphic paraphernalia.
Her studio is in San Francisco.
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Adobe, Adobe Caslon, Chaparral, and Tekton are trademarks of Adobe Systems,
Inc. Optima, Palatino, Melior, and Sabon are trademarks of Heidelberger
Druckmaschinen AG. ITC Zapf Chancery is a trademark of International
Typeface Corporation. No endorsement by companies or individuals mentioned
of TypoBrand, its principals, or its products or services is intended or
implied.
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