Optima
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Optima is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf and released by the D. Stempel AG foundry, Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1958.
Zapf cited this 15th-century gravestone as inspiring Optima. Portions of the text are copied onto one of his 1950 sketches.
Stempel Type Foundry
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D. Stempel AG was a German typographic foundry founded by David Stempel, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Many important font designers worked for the Stempel foundry, including Hans Bohn, Warren Chappe
Factory of the Schriftgießerei D. Stempel in the year 1913
Share of the Schriftgiesserei D. Stempel AG, issued July 1929