“Erik Spiekermann designed the first two weights of ITC Officina
in 1988 under the working name ITC Correspondence. He used the
monospaced fonts Letter Gothic and Courier as points of reference
and created a more elegant Neo-Humanist Sans that would retain its
legibility when printed on the low-quality laster printers
available in the late 1980s and 1990s. […] Following its broad and
favorable acceptance by the design community, the ITC Officina Sans
family (and its companion family ITC Officina Serif) was enlarged
by Spiekermann’s colleague Ole Schäfer to include five weights, all
with an accompanying italic More…
“Erik Spiekermann designed the first two weights of ITC Officina in 1988 under the working name ITC Correspondence. He used the monospaced fonts Letter Gothic and Courier as points of reference and created a more elegant Neo-Humanist Sans that would retain its legibility when printed on the low-quality laster printers available in the late 1980s and 1990s. […] Following its broad and favorable acceptance by the design community, the ITC Officina Sans family (and its companion family ITC Officina Serif) was enlarged by Spiekermann’s colleague Ole Schäfer to include five weights, all with an accompanying italic style.” —Tony Seddon, Essential Type: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding and Using Fonts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 172.
