ITC Officina
The ITC Officina is a 1989 by Erik Spiekermann and Just van Rossum designed sans serif font . In 1995, due to its commercial success, the Officina family was expanded to include three additional weights, small caps and old- style figures in collaboration with Ole Schäfer .
Currently, the Officina family includes 25 different serif and Grotesk- typefaces , making them a font family does.
The ITC Officina is used as the corporate typeface by the Scottish Railways ( ScotRail ), the online mail order company Amazon , the British weekly newspaper The Economist , Messe Düsseldorf GmbH , the office and seating furniture manufacturer Sedus , Tirol Werbung , the German Sport University Cologne , the Austrian student body and the Berlin University of Technology and Economics , the University of Duisburg-Essen , the Leipzig University of Technology, Economics and Culture , the German Youth Hostel Association and the wallstreet: online AG finance portal. The DAB bank uses a modified version of the script.
In January 2007, ITC Officina was ranked 8th in a FontShop ranking of the 100 most successful fonts since Gutenberg . Spiekermann himself sees a reason for the spread of Officina in the fact that it was included in the Adobe Illustrator package for years free of charge .
Web links
- ITC Officina® font family . Linotype.com (English)
- Erik Spiekermann: Officina . 8th place in the ranking of the website “The 100 Best Writings”, ed. from Monotype GmbH and FontShop, 2007
- Which font for which medium? Declaration on the corporate font of the Marketing & Fundraising department of the Rector's Office of the University of Duisburg-Essen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erik Spiekermann: Note on the origin of the Officina in a comment from January 17, 2007, to: Jürgen Siebert: 100 best writings (8): ITC Officina Sans & Serif. Erik Spiekermann 1990 . Fontblog.de, January 16, 2007, accessed May 30, 2017.