We design and publish premium typefaces, engineered to the highest standards and offer designers long-lasting tools with a distinctive identity.

Geneva, Switzerland
Joined July 2009
New release! SuperScotch 🏔️ by François Rappo Try it out now on optimo.ch/typefaces/supersco… ❤️
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New release! Facility by Malte Bentzen 📡 Facility devises its own rules and has a personality that flirts with the extravagance of the 1960s while being undeniably grounded in Modernism. optimo.ch/typefaces/facility
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New❗️Material updated❗️ We're happy to release a brand new Material! New drawing, new design, new weights, see more on our website: optimo.ch/typefaces/material
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We're pleased to release a brand new Hermes 💙 New weights, new width, new drawing, new possibilities! Check it out: optimo.ch/typefaces/hermes
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In the flow 🫧 Void by Malte Bentzen Inspired from the sensation of floating in space, Void is an original and innovative display typeface. Suspended between past and future, its blobby shapes have a magnetic fluidity that suggests otherworldliness. Variable of course!☝️
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To celebrate our Signa Set release, we are pleased to publish a new article by François Rappo: Bobst Graphic—The light years of typography ⚡️ This article offers to understand the context in which Signa was originally developed. optimo.ch/articles/bobst_gra…
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New release! Signa Set by Team’77 📓 The result of continuous practice in pursuit of perfection, we present Signa in a digitalized version. optimo.ch/typefaces/signa_se… #optimo #typedesign #typeface #swisstypography #team77
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Another look at our new release: Tiny Gothic by François Rappo 🔎 optimo.ch/typefaces/tiny_got…
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Out now! 🌎 Tiny Gothic by François Rappo @jfrappo Tiny Gothic stands tall with its lively character. It was inspired by the ingenious solutions of punchcutters who crafted typefaces for optimal legibility at minute sizes. optimo.ch/typefaces/tiny_got…
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New Release! Recital, a carefully orchestrated achievement by Malte Bentzen🎼 Available in five static weights + accompanying italics, and as a variable font.
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Now available! Metodo Mono Designed by @tomatisdavide, Metodo Mono includes three weights: light, regular, and bold with italics. A sophisticated design with a timeless character, Metodo brings distinctly early twentieth century curves to a contemporary typeface.
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New Release! Abstrakt designed by François Rappo. Anchored in modernist ideas, Abstrakt’s shapes do not only embody the spirit of the avant-garde but already begin to foreshadow the pop aesthetic of the early computer age.
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New scripts! Practice Pan offers an extended character set which supports Cyrillic, Greek and Latin alphabets. Designed by François Rappo, Practice Pan revisits the elegance of Renaissance typography with a calligraphic drawing and a digital identity.
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#newreleases Void by @optimofoundry is one of the 13 typefaces we highlight in our inaugural Fall Font Report. Plenty of #typography after the jump bit.ly/3hkl8m7 #typography #typefaces #typedesign #fonts #variablefonts #typeroom
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New Release: Void Drawing inspiration from the sensation of floating in space and being pulled by gravitational forces, Void is an innovative display typeface designed by @malte_bentzen Between past and future its blobby shapes have a magnetic fluidity suggesting otherworldliness
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New Release! Artex designed by @vbrustaux Bringing the neo-grotesque program into the realm of variable fonts, Artex proposes a distinctive graphic language in which modern efficiency meets contemporary technology.
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Programme Pan offers an extended character set, which supports languages that use Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, in addition to those which use the Latin alphabet. It provides accurate and genuine letterforms created for international communication.
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Family extension! Programme is now expanded with the addition of 2 weights: Thin and Black. Developed by the Swiss design studio Maximage, this typeface is based both on calligraphy and computer programming, developed with the help of scripting technology.
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10 years after its release, we are thrilled to publish a substantial extension of Genath, a streamlined digitalization of Baroque eclecticism and extravagance, divided into 2 families Genath Display and Genath. New weights were added to extend its potential for editorial design.
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