Olympian® Font Family

Olympian® Roman (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Olympian® Italic (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Olympian® Bold (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Olympian® Bold Italic (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Olympian® Complete Family Value Pack (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 95.00

Matthew Carter – born 1. 10. 1937 in London, England – type designer. 1956: trains as a punch cutter in the Netherlands. 1963–65: typography consultant for Crossfield Electronics. 1965: moves to the USA and works for Mergenthaler-Linotype in New York. 1971: moves back to England where he continues to work for Linotype. 1980–84: typography consultant to Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1981: the Royal Society of Arts make him a Royal Designer for Industry. 1981: he and Mike Parker set up [...]

The renowned British designer Matthew Carter has worked as a type designer for over 40 years. His designs are suitable for an astonishing array of applications; many of them are already world-famous and the recipients of countless awards. More about the fonts: Bell Centennial Bell Centennial font was created by Matthew Carter in 1976 for the American telephone company Bell. Its bold, clear characters make it an extremely legible and distinctive font. Cascade Script™ Cascade Script [...]

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 font 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.