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Antique Olive

Antique Olive is a humanist sans-serif typeface ("antique" being equivalent to sans-serif in French typographic conventions).

About Antique Olive

Antique Olive is a humanist sans-serif typeface ("antique" being equivalent to sans-serif in French typographic conventions). Along the lines of Gill Sans, it was designed in the early 1960s by French typographer Roger Excoffon, an art director and former consultant to the Marseille based Fonderie Olive. In addition to a basic weight, Antique Olive was produced in medium, condensed, wide, bold, condensed bold, extra bold (known as Antique Olive Compact), and ultra bold (known as Nord). The counters and bowls, especially the letter O, resemble an olive, which is one of the characteristics which make Excoffon's typefaces unique. It was used for the logo for Air France from the 1960s until 2009, the Sesame Street ending credits from 1978 to 1983, logos for Walmart, and on Cartoon Network's Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.

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