Lithos

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Lithos Pro

Category	Sans-serif
Classification	Incised, Display
Designer(s)	Carol Twombly
Foundry	Adobe Type
Date released	1989

Lithos is a glyphic sans-serif typeface designed by Carol Twombly in 1989 for Adobe Systems. Lithos is inspired by the unadorned, geometric letterforms of the engravings found on Ancient Greek public buildings. The typeface consists of only capital letters, no lowercase, and comes in five weights, without italics.^{[citation needed]}

According to Twombly, Lithos only used Greek inscriptions as inspiration, making Lithos more of a modern reinterpretation than a faithful reproduction.^{[citation needed]} Twombly also designed Trajan and Charlemagne based respectively on ancient Roman and Byzantine inscriptions.^{[citation needed]} 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 inscriptions.^{[citation needed]}