Sierra™ Font Family

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Kris Holmes – born 19. 7. 1950 in Reedly, California, USA – type designer. 1968–71: studies at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (courses include calligraphy under Lloyd Reynolds and Robert Paladino). 1975: studies at the Martha Graham School and the Alwin Nikolai School in New York (modern dance). 1976: studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York (including lettering with Ephram E. Benguiat). 1979: studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York (courses include [...]

Font Designer: Kris Holmes, 1989 Sierra™ was designed in 1989 by Kris Holmes, who also worked together with Charles Bigelow on the design for Lucida®. The typeface is an antiqua with a large x-height and generous, open counters. Many curves of the letters are almost right angles, which was particularly suited to the Digiset machines from Dr. Ing. Rudolf Hell, Kiel. The forms of Sierra with their flowing stroke contrast and half serifs have a calligraphic touch, which is [...]

Sierra™ was designed in 1989 by Kris Holmes, who also worked on the design for Lucida. The typeface is an antiqua with a high x-height and generous, open counters. Many curves of the letters are almost right angles, which was particularly suited to the Digiset machines from Dr. Ing. Rudolf Hell, Kiel. The forms of Sierra with their flowing stroke contrast and half serifs have a calligraphic touch, which is especially highlighted in the italic weights. This is a graceful text type and its bold weights look almost like woodcuts. Sierra is an excellent choice for both texts and headlines. In 1990, Linotype AG merged with Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell GmbH, forming the Linotype-Hell AG (today Linotype GmbH). Since then, Linotype has been the official source of all fonts that were originally designed for the Hell Corporation. Linotype has also improved the typefaces using new technologies, including OpenType.