Olaus Font Family

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Swedish designer Bo Berndal created the following fonts: Belltrap™ (1995), Benedikt (1991), Berndal™ (2002), Boberia™ (1994), Boscribe™ (2005), Bosis™, Brigida™ (1995), Buccardi™ (2003), Byngve™ (2002), Carl Beck (1992), Linotype Dala™ (1999), Exlibris (1992), Frisans™ (2005), Golota (1997), Grafilone™ (1994), Grantofte (1995), Johabu (1989), Läckö (1993), Lebensjoy (1993), Logoform (1992), Magellan (1993), Maricava (1994), Naniara (1997), Olaus (1992), Promemoria (1996), Sabellicus, [...]

The Olaus Magnus and Olaus Bandus alphabets are inspired by the letterforms cut in the pictures and wood-cuts of Olaus Magnus great book Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus. This great history of the Nordic Peoples was printed in Rome in 1555 in his own printing shop there. Olaus Magnus, Catholic priest and appointed archbishop by the Pope, never returned to the now Lutheran Sweden.