Arno™ is a humanistic serif typeface based on 15th and 16th
century typeface styles. The Arno font family was designed by
Robert Slimbach of Adobe Systems and released in 2007 and
incorporates an extensive range of glyphs. It was included as a
bundled font in many Adobe products. The name for this font
family comes from the river running through the Italian city of
Florence. The city itself is famous for renaissance architecture
and with it the typography that became unique to the period. The
15th and 16th centuries were a time of great change and this was
reflected in just about every aspect of life, including the
printed word. Robert Slimbach, long-term principal designer at
Adobe when he developed Arno, was interested in making a modern
font family that although had inherent features of the
Renaissance era, would be modern enough to be functional.
Slimbach paid close attention to detail as with all his designs
and the resulting Arno font family has become a reflection of
the way text was reproduced in trad