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Optima® Medium Italic

- by Hermann Zapf
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Optima® Std Medium Italic
  Format: OpenType Std

Price: US$ 29.00
  
... 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: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Optima® Std Medium
Optima® Std Medium Italic
Optima® Std Black
Optima® Std Black Italic
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Product is contained in:
Linotype OpenType Library 1.0 Bundle CD for Mac OS and Windows
OpenType Flirt Library CD for Mac OS and Windows
The Adobe Type Collection OpenType Edition Version One
The Linotype Originals OpenType Edition Version Two
Optima® Std Complete Family Value Pack
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Optima® Medium Italic
  Format: Windows TrueType

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Optima® Font Family, comprising altogether 12 fonts in Windows TrueType format.
Character set features:
euro
234 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Optima® Medium
Optima® Medium Italic
Optima® Black
Optima® Black Italic
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Product is contained in:
GoldEdition 1.7.1 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
Optima® Complete Family Value Pack
Gudrun Hermann Zapf Collection CD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection Value Pack
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Optima® Medium Italic
  Format: Windows PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Optima® Font Family, comprising altogether 16 fonts in Windows PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro
233 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Optima® Medium
Optima® Medium Italic
Optima® Black
Optima® Black Italic
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Product is contained in:
GoldEdition 1.7.1 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
OpenType Flirt Library CD for Mac OS and Windows
Optima® Complete Family Value Pack
Optima® 2 Value Pack
Gudrun Hermann Zapf Collection CD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection Value Pack
Technical information  

Optima® Medium Italic
  Format: Mac PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Optima® Font Family, comprising altogether 16 fonts in Mac PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro
246 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Optima® Medium
Optima® Medium Italic
Optima® Black
Optima® Black Italic
Put the core family into shopping cart Add font group
Product is contained in:
GoldEdition 1.7.1 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
Optima® Complete Family Value Pack
Optima® 2 Value Pack
Gudrun Hermann Zapf Collection CD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection Value Pack
Technical information  

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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® Medium Italic ...

Linotype usage sample for Optima® Std Medium Italic
Designer: Hermann Zapf, 1958
Optima® Medium Italic 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 proportion and character, but without serifs. The letterforms were designed in the proportions of the Golden Ratio. In 1952, after careful legibility testing, the first drawings were finished.
The type was cut by the famous punchcutter August Rosenberger at the D. Stempel AG typefoundry in Frankfurt. Optima was produced in matrices for the Linotype typesetting machines and released in 1958. With the clear, simple elegance of its sans serif forms and the warmly human touches of its tapering stems, this family has proved popular around the world. Optima is an all-purpose typeface; it works for just about anything from book text to signage. It is available in 12 weights and 4 companion fonts with Central European characters and accents.
In 2002, more than 50 years after the first sketches, Hermann Zapf and Akira Kobayashi completed Optima nova , an expansion and redesign of the Optima family.
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