Notre Dame

Designed in 1992 by Karlgeorg Hoefer, Notre Dame is part of the Linotype Type Before Gutenberg series. Notre Dame is a textura blackletter, a common bookhand style from the fourteenth…

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NoweAteny font

NoweAteny

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Linotype Nowe Ateny is part of the Take Type Library, which features the winners of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contest from 1994 to 1997. Designed by Dariusz Nowak-Nova, Nowe…

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OCR A Tribute font

OCR A Tribute

OCR-A was originally designed in 1968 as a machine-readable alphabet. Its functionality was its most important element, instead of its design. Over the following decades, the typeface has become popular…

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Olympian font

Olympian

Designed by Matthew Carter and intended for newspaper use. Contemporary newspaper columns are narrow and require typefaces that are efficient in their use of width. The old-style diagonal emphasis is…

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Omnia font

Omnia

Omnia was designed in 1990 by calligrapher Karlgeorg Hoefer for Linotype as part of the Type Before Gutenberg series. This typeface is based on the uncial hand, written from the…

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Ondine font

Ondine

Ondine is one of the early typefaces of Adrian Frutiger. It looks as though it were written with a broad tipped pen, however, Frutiger actually cut the forms out of…

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Opal font

Opal

Opal Pro is a text family designed by Hannes von Döhren in 2008. It gives every text a noble character. The typeface has long ascenders that clearly rise above the…

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Optima font

Optima

Many typefaces are distinctive or attractive at the expense of legibility and versatility. Not so the Optima® family. Simultaneously standing out and fitting in, there are few projects or imaging…

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Optima nova font

Optima nova

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With the clear, simple elegance of its sans serif forms and the warmly human touches of its tapering stems, the Optima family has proved popular around the world. In 2002,…

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Orion font

Orion

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Hermann Zapf made his first sketches for Orion in 1963. Zapf’s aim was to create a neutral text face that could be ideally used as a newspaper face. Its stroke…

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