Specimen of the Garamond typeface
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Specimen of Utopia typeface
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Adobe Type Manager manual and diskette
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Adobe Introduces its First Postscript Typeface Families: Utopia and Garamond, and Adobe Type Manager

1989
This was the way in which Adobe Garamond was sold in 1989.
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This was the way in which Adobe Garamond was sold in 1989. The fonts are on a 3.25 floppy for the Macintosh. This one is copyright 1989. The Adobe Type Library brochure, also copyright 1989, is generic, and could be used for whatever type families Adobe offered. The inserted 4-page card to the right was specific to the Garamond font.
The first typeface families arrived at Adobe in 1989: Robert Slimbach's Utopia and Adobe Garamond, a reinterpretation of the Roman types of Claude Garamond and the italics of Robert Granjon.

Along with the first PostScript fonts Adobe introduced Adobe Type Manager. ATM was created for the Apple Macintosh computer platform to scale PostScript Type 1 fonts for the computer monitor, and for printing to non-PostScript printers, i.e. printers that did not have PostScript installed in their firmware. Mac Type 1 fonts came with screen fonts set to display at certain point sizes only. In Macintosh operating systems prior to Mac OS X, Type 1 fonts set at other sizes would appear jagged on the monitor. ATM allowed Type 1 fonts to appear smooth at any point size, and to print well to non-PostScript devices.

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