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Retrieved 15 June Archived from the original on 28 September In interviews, Zapf has said that this was his original goal from the beginning, but the need to release Optima quickly forced him to settle for an oblique. Retrieved 9 September By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

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Archived from the original on 28 September Optima was first manufactured as a foundry version in by Stempel of Frankfurt, and by Mergenthaler in America shortly thereafter. Like the Roman capitals, Optima's 'E' and 'R' occupy about a half-square, the 'M' is wide and zapv sides are splayed. In his book About AlphabetsZapf commented that his key aim in designing Optima's capitals, inspired by the Roman capital model, was the desire to avoid the monotony of all capital letters having a roughly square footprint, as he felt was true of some early sans-serif designs.

Optima's sloped version was originally an oblique or sloped roman, in which the letters do not take on handwriting characteristics. Optima is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf and released by the D.

Retrieved 9 October However, the curved lines of humanits stems of each letter result from technical considerations of type manufacturing rather than purely esthetic considerations.

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fotn Optima was inspired by classical Roman capitals and the stonecarving on Renaissance -period tombstones Zapf saw in Florence on a holiday to Italy. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies.

Sign In or Sign Up facebook google. Stempel AG foundry, FrankfurtGermany. Alegreya Sans SC Italic. Further influence of A. For other uses, see Optima disambiguation. Glyph sets are expanded to include Adobe CE and Latin Extended characters, with light to bold weight fonts supporting proportional lining figures, old style figures, and small caps. Alegreya Sans Light Itali. While in Florence, Zapf was italicc interested in the design of the lettering in tombstones of the cemetery of the Basilica di Santa Croce aapf Florencein which the strokes subtly widen as they reach stroke terminals without ending in a serif.

In the Bitstream font collection, Zapf Humanist is provided as an Optima clone.

In Optima nova, this is replaced by a true italic. It is a variant designed by Matthew Carterbased closely on Optima Medium. Linux Biolinum fobt a libre font inspired by it.

Zapf intended Optima to be a typeface that could serve for both body text and titling. The overall bounding boxes were widened in Optima nova.

iralic Yes, I want to receive emails related to the website. The glyph set is the same as Optima nova Condensed, but also includes extra ligatures. Webarchive template wayback links Commons category link is on Wikidata.

Josefin Sans Bold Italic. The initial and most common release of Optima, like many sans-serif fonts, has an oblique style instead of an italic: In other projects Wikimedia Commons. Optima humanit an example of a modulated-stroke sans-serif, a design type where the strokes are variable in width.

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Berry writes in his review of the nova release: To prove its versatility, Humqnist set his entire book About Alphabets in the regular weight. Merriweather Sans Light I. As with many popular fonts, knockoff designs and re-releases under different names are common, some created by Zapf himself.