What is the Optima nova® font?
With the clear, simple elegance of its sans serif forms and the warmly human touches of its tapering stems, the Optima family has proved popular around the world.
In 2002, when it was finally possible to produce digital alphabets without technical limitations and compromises, and more than fifty years after the first sketches, an expansion and redesign of the Optima family was completed and released as Optima nova. Hermann Zapf and Japanese type designer, Akira Kobayashi, collaborated on the project, which included re-working of the existing weights and the addition of several new weights: small caps, old style figures, light, heavy, and condensed. More…
The original Optima was never manufactured with a real italic, only an oblique version of the roman. Optima nova has a complete range of beautifully designed real italics; the new italic forms, of the e, f and g are especially notable.
The titling face includes capital letters with special and unusual letter combinations and ligatures, making it an excellent choice for headlines, logos and advertising purposes. Optima continues to be an all-purpose typeface; and Optima nova works for just about anything from book text to signage.
Optima nova® Font families
The Optima nova® includes the following font families:
- Optima nova Pro Light
- Optima nova Pro Light Italic
- Optima nova Pro Regular
- Optima nova Pro Italic
- Optima nova Pro Medium
- Optima nova Pro Medium Italic
- Optima nova Pro Demi
- Optima nova Pro Demi Italic
- Optima nova Pro Bold
- Optima nova Pro Bold Italic
- Optima nova Pro Heavy
- Optima nova Pro Heavy Italic
- Optima nova Pro Black
- Optima nova Pro Black Italic
- Optima nova Pro Condensed Light
- Optima nova Pro Condensed
- Optima nova Pro Condensed Medium
- Optima nova Pro Condensed Demi
- Optima nova Pro Condensed Bold
- Optima nova Pro Titling
- Optima nova Light
- Optima nova Light SC
- Optima nova Light OsF
- Optima nova Light Italic
- Optima nova Light Italic SC
- Optima nova Light Italic OsF
- Optima nova Regular
- Optima nova Regular SC
- Optima nova Regular OsF
- Optima nova Italic
- Optima nova Italic SC
- Optima nova Italic OsF
- Optima nova Medium
- Optima nova Medium SC
- Optima nova Medium OsF
- Optima nova Medium Italic
- Optima nova Medium Italic SC
- Optima nova Medium Italic OsF
- Optima nova Demi
- Optima nova Demi SC
- Optima nova Demi OsF
- Optima nova Demi Italic
- Optima nova Demi Italic SC
- Optima nova Demi Italic OsF
- Optima nova Bold
- Optima nova Bold SC
- Optima nova Bold OsF
- Optima nova Bold Italic
- Optima nova Bold Italic SC
- Optima nova Bold Italic OsF
- Optima nova Heavy
- Optima nova Heavy Italic
- Optima nova Black
- Optima nova Black Italic
- Optima nova Condensed Light
- Optima nova Condensed Regular
- Optima nova Condensed Medium
- Optima nova Condensed Demi
- Optima nova Condensed Bold
- Optima nova Titling
Optima nova® Preview
Here is a preview of how Optima nova® will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
