Antique Olive Font

Roger Excoffon designed Antique Olive for Fonderie Olive; the publisher dates the first resources to 1962–1966. The linked URW edition is a contemporary distribution of that family history, separate from the date it appeared in a retail catalog.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

The family contains several resources, so compare the precise weight and width under consideration. Its expressive sans-serif structure should be judged through the original letters, rather than treating its historical competition with Helvetica and Univers as evidence of identical proportions.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Try a poster headline and a short identity line. Open Sans and Alegreya Sans provide separate sans-serif comparisons. Review the strongest display line before deciding how much supporting text should use the same visual voice.

For independent comparisons, try Open Sans and Alegreya Sans. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use URW Type Foundry on MyFonts to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve Antique Olive font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.