“Who hasn’t admired the energy of Antique Olive Nord? All other ultrabolds seem sluggish in comparison. Nord exudes Excoffon’s animation and Gallic impatience with the rules. Tobias Frere-Jones cross-bred the weight, proportion, and rhythms of Nord with the casual grace of his own Cafeteria, gaining informality and a dancing vitality on the page. In his words, Asphalt swings with ‘a lively, if faintly inebriated gyration.’” — Font Bureau, 1995

Transferred from Font Bureau to Frere-Jones Type in 2020; available directly from Frere-Jones Type starting in 2025.