Optima® font family
Designed by Hermann Zapf in 1958
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.
In 2002, more than 50 years after the first sketches,
Optima Extra Black
language support of the font.
Windows menu name: Optima LT Pro XBlack
PostScript name: , OptimaLTPro-ExtraBlack
PostScript full name: , Optima LT Pro Extra Black