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based respectively on ancient Roman and Byzantine inscriptions. Those typefaces, unlike Lithos, were modeled more directly upon their historical counterparts. One example of Lithos' departure from historical accuracy is the inclusion of bold weights, which never existed in historical Greek
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According to Twombly, Lithos only used Greek inscriptions as inspiration, making Lithos more of a modern reinterpretation than a faithful reproduction. Twombly also designed
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public buildings. The typeface consists of only capital letters, no lowercase, and comes in five weights, without italics.
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in the lowercase positions. OpenType features include alternates, case forms, proportional lining figures, small caps.
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version called Lithos Pro, which included Adobe CE, Adobe Western 2, Greek character sets support, and
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Fall/Winter 2004. Retrieved May 30, 2007. Archived February 4, 2012.
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This article is about the typeface. For the scientific journal, see
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Lithos (journal)
references
inline citations
improve
introducing
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Category
Sans-serif
Classification
Designer(s)
Carol Twombly
Foundry
Adobe Type
sans-serif
typeface
Carol Twombly
Adobe Systems
Ancient Greek
Trajan
Charlemagne
OpenType
small caps
MTV
Very Short Introductions
Oxford University Press
California State Parks
South Park
Banjo-Kazooie
Sludge Metal

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