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Olympian™

 from Linotype

Olympian™ is a Linotype font family with 4 styles.

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Olympian™


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  Olympian Roman Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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  Olympian Italic Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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  Olympian Bold Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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  Olympian Bold Italic Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: Matthew Carter
Designed when: 1970
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: none [suggest]


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 used to obtain maximum counter width and space between letters; Olympian appears larger than its Modern competitors.


Olympian

After the Second World War, the Ionic style replaced Modern Face as the favored typeface for newsprint. A couple decades later, it was in turn replaced by the next generation of newspaper fonts, a mix of Old Face, Transitional and Modern Face forms. Olympian itself tends toward the Old Face style but is nevertheless an example of this new generation, a result of a time of change and experimentation.

‘Olympian’ is a trademark of Linotype GmbH which may be registered in certain jurisdictions



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