| Date: 1962
Designer:
Roger Excoffon
Foundry:
Fonderie Olive
Location:
Marseilles, France
Current equivalent:
Antique Olive
See also:
Olive, BT Incised 901
Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Metal (machine)
Photosetting
Postscript | | Famous for:
First typeface designed specificaly for an airline. Applications: Business and Corporate
Ubiquity:
Average use
Category:
Sans Serif Neo Grotesque
Stress: Vertical
Serifs: Sans Serif | | Design history:
Roger Excoffon gathered fame as a postwar designer in France for flouting typographic conventions. The development of this type and the Air France indentity with which it is synonymous was begun in the late 1950s. Antique Olive is a sans serif in the neo grotesque style that has a gallic flourish due to the crisp incision of its terminals, and was designed in four weights with italics, accompanied by Antique Olive Nord, an ultra black weight for signage. Compact and condensed versions of the bold were added later. The Fonderie Olive ceased trading in 1978. | |  |
