Olnova Bold

Olnova Bold Needs Love

For every Helvetica, there are clones like Olnova Bold. Olnova Bold is quite nice, though I’m on the fence on the e’s.. What do you think?

October 27th, 2008 at 12:04 am • Filed in Design



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5 Comments to “Olnova Bold”

  1. Keith Gaughan Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 2:25 am

    It’s actually more of a Neue Helvetica knock-off. The curves on all the letters seem to be off (which is why the ‘e’ look misshapen), same with the letter kerning. See where the bowls of the ‘d’ and ‘g’ meets the stems? That should be as thick as where the aperture of the ‘h’ meets its stem.

    Me, as far as swiss typefaces go, I’m more of a Univers fan. But if I was stuck on a desert island with one and only one typeface, it’d be Gill Sans.

    There’s also some dodgy history behind Olnova.



  2. roosta Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    im a bit of a Helvetica fetishist…but this is ok. I don’t like the ‘e’s myself…in fact some of the letters seem haphazard or unbalanced, the e in particular.



  3. TheChrisD Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    That knock-off just looks very wrong. I can describe how, but it just feels that way to me…



  4. jen Says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    The dodgy kerning is pretty distracting and I definitely don’t like the ‘e’. Mind you, I stare at Futura all day long, so my judgement is probably somewhat squiffy these days.



  5. Dave Spathaky Says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 9:02 am

    No, me too. The e’s are top heavy. (sound’s like a club comment from the 90′s :-) )



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