Optima is a humanist sans serif typeface was designed by Hermann Zapf for the D. Stempel AG foundry of Frankfurt, West Germany in 1958. Despite being a serif sans serif font, Optima has small serifs at both ends to make it have a serif like look. Zapf thus found out about Optima in Florence where he saw it used on tombs from the Renaissance period and on classical Roman capitals. Optima was designed by Zapf with the ability of being versatile and used for body text and for heading purposes. He proved this by even writing his book about alphabets in standard font weight throughout the whole book.
As a matter of fact over the years Zapf saw fit to further develop variations of this style which he continued to work on well into his eighties. In keeping with the Roman look and feel of Optima, the capitals in this font have very broad and robust lettering; E, F, and L are less broad. Similar to other Zapf designs, this cap S is high-heavy and tilted to the left; there is also an M that expands; N has small vertical strokes similar to serif fonts; a and g are two-story letters with good legibility.
Optima Serif Font Family
License: Personal Use Only!
Font Type: Free
Format: OTF
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I could not find if a single individual purchase of an open type font (optima in my case) can be used on two machines: laptop and work station? I am a sole proprietor who uses one machine at at time but often needs to work with both machines over the course of one day or week.
Please advise.