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Optima® Extra Black

- by Hermann Zapf
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Optima® Std Extra Black
  Format: OpenType Std

Price: US$ 29.00
  
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Price: US$ 348.00

... is part of the Optima® Font Family, comprising altogether 12 fonts in OpenType Std format.
Character set features:
stdr euro isoadobe2
253 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Optima® Std Extra Black
Optima® Std Extra Black Italic
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Technical information
 
Digital data from:
OpenType outline flavour:
CFF - PostScript flavoured
Technical font names:
File name:
OptimaLTStd-ExtraBlack.otf
Windows menu name:
Optima LT Std ExtraBlack
PostScript name:
OptimaLTStd-ExtraBlack
PostScript full name:
OptimaLTStd-ExtraBlack
Catalog material number:
16740816

Optima® Extra Black
  Format: Windows TrueType

Price: US$ 26.00
  
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Price: US$ 312.00

... is part of the Optima® Font Family, comprising altogether 12 fonts in Windows TrueType format.
Character set features:
euro
234 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Optima® Extra Black
Optima® Extra Black Italic
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Technical information
 
Digital data from:
Technical font names:
File names:
lte53511.ttf, OPF_____.TTF
Windows menu names:
Optima LT ExtraBlack, Optima ExtraBlack
PostScript names:
OptimaLT-ExtraBlack, Optima-ExtraBlack
PostScript full names:
Optima LT Extra Black, Optima Extra Black
Catalog material number:
35653511

Optima® Extra Black
  Format: Windows PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
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Price: US$ 416.00

... is part of the Optima® Font Family, comprising altogether 16 fonts in Windows PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro
233 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Optima® Extra Black
Optima® Extra Black Italic
Is in Cart Complete font group 
into cart
Product is contained in:
Technical information
 
Digital data from:
Technical font names:
File name:
lte53511.pfb
Windows menu name:
Optima LT ExtraBlack
PostScript name:
OptimaLT-ExtraBlack
PostScript full name:
Optima LT Extra Black
Catalog material number:
16153511

Optima® Extra Black
  Format: Mac PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
Put the whole Optima® Font Family into your shopping cart Complete Optima® Font Family
(16 fonts) to shopping cart
Price: US$ 416.00

... is part of the Optima® Font Family, comprising altogether 16 fonts in Mac PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro
246 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Optima® Extra Black
Optima® Extra Black Italic
Is in Cart Complete font group 
into cart
Product is contained in:
Technical information
 
Digital data from:
Technical font names:
File name:
OptimLTExtBla
PostScript name:
OptimaLT-ExtraBlack
PostScript full name:
Optima LT Extra Black
Catalog material number:
36053511

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See below Optima® Extra Black or other typefaces from the Optima® Font Family in real usage ...

Source:
Estée Lauder
Fonts shown:
Optima® Font Family
Source:
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Fonts shown:
Optima® Font Family
Source:
HP
Fonts shown:
Optima® Font Family
Source:
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Fonts shown:
Optima® Font Family

Documents referring to this product ...

Find further Font Features in our Font Feature Archive. Typographic Tip of the Month from Linotype’s Type Director Akira Kobayashi! June 2006: “Apostrophes and Quotation Marks” Which glyph is correct: the inch, the acute, or the apostrophe? – This feature describes the poper use of the pesky punctuation mark that signifies omission and forms the possessive (and sometimes plurals). Apostrophes Prime symbol, used here to incorrectly create the [...]

About Optima® Extra Black ...

Linotype usage sample for Optima® Std Extra Black
Designer: Hermann Zapf, 1958
Optima® Extra Black belongs to the Optima® Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.
Optima™ was designed by Hermann Zapf and is his most successful typeface. In 1950, Zapf made his first sketches while visiting the Santa Croce church in Florence. He sketched letters from grave plates that had been cut about 1530, and as he had no other paper with him at the time, the sketches were done on two 1000 lire bank notes.
These letters from the floor of the church inspired Optima, a typeface that is classically roman in propo