German designer Ole Schäfer (born 1970) created the fonts ITC Officina Sans® and ITC Officina Serif® (1990/1998, with Erik Spiekermann).
Designer Erik Spiekermann created the following fonts: Berliner Grotesk® BQ (1913), Lo-Type® BQ (1914 ,this font has been adapted from the original for use in photosetting applications), ITC Officina Sans® (1990), ITC Officina Serif® (1990).
Please take a look at the personal designer portrait of Erik Spiekermann.
Officina embodies the ideals of efficient office communication in both its serif and sans serif forms. Its style is that found on a traditional typewriter, altered to suit modern technological developments. Both serif and sans serif forms are designed and spaced to offer optimal legibility.
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Not your grandmother’ s medieval type ... meet the “American” Gothic fonts!
A breed of no-nonsense typefaces, called “Gothics” in the United States, have been serving as heavy hitters in financial services, business, and newspaper sectors since the late 19th Century. Gothic typefaces – not to be confused with Blackletter typefaces, which look “gothic” in a scary, medieval sort of way – are American sans serifs. Their forms are designed to solve
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The ITC Officina® Sans by Adobe Font Family is part of the
ITC Collection.
When ITC Officina was first released in 1990, as a paired family of serif and sans serif faces in two weights with italics, it was intended as a workhorse typeface for business correspondence. But the typeface proved popular in many more areas than correspondence. Erik Spiekermann, ITC Officina's designer: "Once ITC Officina got picked up by the trendsetters to denote 'coolness,' it had lost its innocence. No pretending anymore that it only needed two weights for office correspondence. As a face used in magazines and advertising, it needed proper headline weights and one more weight in between the original Book and Bold." To add the new weights and small caps, Spiekermann collaborated with Ole Schaefer, director of typography and type design at MetaDesign. The extended ITC Officina family now includes Medium, Extra Bold, and Black weights with matching italics-all in both Sans and Serif -- as well as new small caps fonts for the original Book and Bold weights.
