Minion Pro Font is a serif typeface which was initiated in 1990 by Adobe Systems. Available in both Linotype and OpenType formats and designed by Robert Slimbach it has been inspired by the late Renaissance typography and designed for body text and for extended reading. The name Minion originated from the regular identification of type sizes that started from Nonpareil and is less than Breve, though is as large as 7pt in the type body.
As any powerful name based on tradition presupposes, Minion was originally created for typesetting body texts in classical serif type with only slight compromises in compactness for a tighter setting of the lines and with large apertures for improved readability.
This was described by Slimbach as having ‘a fairly minimalistic nature and pedestrian scale. ’ ‘The design gets slightly smaller,’ Slimbach mentioned, although he clarified that this was not a result of commercialization rather the pursuit of a proper ratio between the size of letters in both height of ascenders and length of descenders.
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