SUMNER STONE

Since 1990 I have been designing new typefaces and minding the store at Stone Type Foundry. My background includes training and experience as a type designer, calligrapher, graphic designer, mathematician, teacher, and farmer. My education in the graphic arts began when I studied calligraphy with Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. I have a BA in Sociology from Reed and an MA in Mathematics from Sonoma State University. I worked for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Missouri, and managed my own design studio in Sonoma, California. From 1984 to 1989 I was Director of Typography for Adobe Systems where I conceived and implemented Adobe’s typographic program including the Adobe Originals. I have taught lettering and typography at several institutions, including San Francisco State University, and the University of California Extensions at San Francisco & San Jose. I have done a good bit of lecturing in the field of typography and design, and a partial bibliography appears below.

 

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Selected Bibliography of Books & Articles by Sumner Stone

“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.