Myriad is a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly. It is one of several fonts to imitate Adrian Frutiger’s eponymous Frutiger. Since the launch of the eMac in 2002, Myriad has been replacing Apple Garamond as Apple Computer's corporate font. It is now used in all of their marketing and on their products (See Apple typography#Myriad Apple). More recent iterations of the iPod (from the iPod photo onwards) have used Myriad (as opposed to Chicago) for their user interface.

It's a humanist sans serif typeface, meaning that the forms are primarily based on classic romans, much like conventional or classic serifed fonts but without the serifs. It also has subtle geometric shaping and monotone color, balanced by varying letter widths and open counter shapes. A readable and friendly face, it works well for both text and display typography.

A font similar to Myriad called Lucida Grande is used as the system font for Apple's Mac OS X operating system.

Myriad is also used by Wells Fargo as their banner headline typeface.

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