Myriad (typeface) Myriad (typeface) Myriad is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly for Adobe Systems. Myriad was intended as a neutral, general-purpose typeface that could fulfil a range of uses and have a form easily expandable by computer-aided design to a large range of weights and widths. Myriad is probably best known for its usage by Apple Inc., replacing Apple Garamond as Apple's corporate font from 2002 to around 2017. Myriad is easily distinguished from other sans-serif fonts due to its "y" descender (tail) and slanting "e" cut. Myriad is a humanist sans-serif, a relatively informal design
Jacques Nathan Garamond the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Jacques Nathan Garamond Jacques Nathan-Garamond (26 March 1910 - 25 February 2001) was a French graphic designer. His birth name was Jacques Nathan. During the Second World War, he changed his last name to Garamond, and used his actual name of Nathan as a middle name. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, and served as Director of Contemporary Architecture prior to commencing his career as a designer. After the war, he became a graphic artist, whose work included the posters for a 1949 UNESCO exposition