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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 beginning in the late 1950s by French typographer Roger Excoffon, an art director and former consultant to the Marseille based Fonderie Olive. Essentially an extrapolation of a 1958 ultra-bold Excoffon design known as Nord, the regular Antique Olive romain would be released in 1960, followed by the squarish Antique Olive compact the next year. Medium, bold, wide, and condensed versions, with italics, would be designed and released from 1964 through 1971. The regular Antique Olive family features subtle flares and ink traps.
From the Wikipedia article “Antique Olive”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Antique Olive in a book
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Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q582888 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).