“As he explains the origin and purpose of this design, it becomes clear that Cyrus Highsmith undertook Ibis as a real typographic adventure. Studying the Font Bureau library, he found openings that were filled elsewhere by Justus Erich Walbaum’s types from the early 19th century and Hermann Zapf’s Melior from the early 1950s. Combining these two diverse influences may be far from obvious, but Highsmith found the result to be truly inspirational.” – Font Bureau, 2010.