Olympian
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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: Matthew Carter
Designed when: 1970
Contained in Categories: Legible, Transitional
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: legible, news, news text, serif, Times-like, transitional

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.

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