Since then, he has concentrated primarily on designing typefaces for digital technology, often drawing inspiration from classical sources. He later commented of this period that "I wasn’t really making enough money to live on." Slimbach was then self-employed for two years as a freelance type designer, during which developed the two typefaces ITC Slimbach and ITC Giovanni for the International Typeface Corporation. There he received further training, not just as a type designer but also as a calligrapher. After training from 1983 to 1985, Slimbach worked as a type designer with Autologic Incorporation.
This work brought him into contact with Autologic Incorporated in Newbury Park, California. After attending UCLA on an athletics scholarship, he developed an interest in graphic design and typefaces while running a small screen printshop for manufacturing posters and greeting cards. Shortly after, he moved to Southern California where he spent his childhood and his youth. Slimbach was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1956. Slimbach's signature on a copy of the Arno Pro specimen.
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