For a long time Myriad Pro was my favorite font, and I still use it a lot, but Minion Pro has grown on me. Designed by Robert Slimbach of Adobe in 1989, it came with Creative Suite 2. The turning point for me was when I was reading Robert Bringhurt’s The Elements of Typographic Style and saw that it was in 10/12 Minion (10 pt. text with 12 pt. leading). It was beautiful. And then I realized that my Old English text (Peter Baker’s Introduction to Old English) was also set in Minion. So I tried it out on a few bookish projects, still thinking I was going to go back to Garamond. But I was smitten. Still am.
Here’s a sample:
On Riverglen Press I’ll have a Latin edition of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses up before too long, set in Minion. You can follow along with that on Bookland.
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