Designers
Erik Spiekermann
was born May 30, 1947. Gerard Unger January 22, 1942 Just van Rossum July 13, 1966.
Release Year
1990
Classification
Sans serif,
Humanist sans, Slab serif
Foundry
International
Typeface Corporation
ITC Officina is
what Erik Spiekernann called it. The san serif typeface catered to
office documents
and business correspondence. Reminiscing the typewriter faces letter
gothic and
courier with its legibility; Officina utilizes its negative space to give it a
more economical look. [1]
This typeface worked great with the low-resolution laser printers business used
at the time. Years latter a slab serif version was introduced with the help of
a friend named Gerard Unger.[2]
Spiekermann is
one of the biggest type designers to come out of Germany. He is the creator of
FontShop International and The United Designers Network. He is also co-funder
of the biggest design firm in the country, MetaDesign. Spiekermann designed a
number of typefaces that’s used for business documents and company branding
such as: Officina sans, Officina, serif, Govan, Meta and Berliner Grotesk.[3]
The typeface has
characteristic that are unique to it and they are displayed easily in certain
letterforms. On the lowercase “y” the arm is slightly touching the stem. The
“k’s” arm and leg slightly touches the stem as well. The lowercase “i,j,I and
J” are the only letterforms that are serif. Certain letterforms share a barb
slant ending the stroke. The characters that have ears or feet—have curved ears
and feet. This typeface is perfect for low-resolution output devices and
monitor output.
“I love to be a
graphic designer, but could we get rid of clients somehow please?”
“I had had
enough of the sleek, ‘pretty’ fonts that all the manufacturers were releasing,
and the other was that there was a need for a modern correspondence font.”
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