Sketches for Optima have been done first on a 1000 Lire banknote in 1950. To make notes from inscriptions in Santa Croce in Florence no paper was at hand and therefore Hermann Zapf took a banknote to make sketches. In 1952 the first drawings were finished after careful legibility tests for a typeface. The type was cut by the famous punchcutter August Rosenberger at the D. Stempel AG typefoundry in Frankfurt and produced also in matrices for the Linotype typesetting machines. Unfortunately no real Italic was manufactured, but only an oblique version of the roman.
The basis idea of Optima was to develop a typeface between a Sans-serif like the Futura and a classical Roman like Bodoni, To avoid the monotony of the streight lines of an ordinary Sans-serif the stems have slightly curved out lines, typical for all Optima alphabets. This makes the elegance for the various Optima designs. After 50 years since the beginning of Optima a complete redesign was made named Linotype Optima nova in producing digital alphabets without technical compromises.
The careful work of the new designs was done in close collaboration of Hermann Zapf with the Japanese type designer and computer expert Akira Kobayashi from Tokyo. All Optima alphabets were new shaped and additional weights had been added, like Linotype Opima nova Titling, capital letters with special and unusual letter combinations and ligatures. Optima nova Titling is a welcomed font for headlines, logos and advertising purposes.
Linotype Optima Nova OpenType, along with Linotype Compatil, Linotype Frutiger Next, Linotype Sabon Next, Linotype Syntax, Linotype Syntax Letter, Linotype Syntax Serif and Linotype Univers belongs to the fonts of the Linotype Platinum Collection.
These fonts were carefully digitized and have the high quality demanded by professional typography. All fonts of the Platinum Collection were produced according to the Linotype tradition of quality.
Linotype Optima Nova OpenType for Macintosh and PC is available only as a complete fontfamily on a hybrid CD for both platforms. All weights contain an integrated Euro symbol. A licence for max. 5 CPU is included
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