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Optima is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf and released between 1952 and 1955 for the D. Stempel AG foundry, Frankfurt, Germany.
Though classified as a sans-serif, Optima has a subtle swelling at the terminals suggesting a glyphic serif. Optima was inspired by Roman and Italian stonecarving.
Zapf intended Optima to be a typeface that could serve for both body text and titling. To prove its versatility, Zapf set his entire book About Alphabets in the regular weight. Zapf retained an interest in the design, collaborating on variants and expansions into his eighties.
Optima’s design follows humanist lines; its capitals (like those of Palatino, Hans Eduard Meier’s Syntax and Carol Twombly's Trajan) are directly derived from the classic Roman monumental capital model, reflecting a reverence for Roman capitals as an ideal form.
Optima is an example of a modulated-stroke sans-serif, a design type where the strokes are variable in width. The design style has been intermittently popular since the late nineteenth century; Optima is one of the most lastingly popular examples of the genre. Optima was originally targeted by Stempel's Walter Cunz as a competitor to Ludwig & Mayer's Colonia design, which has not been digitised. Shaw also suggests the little-known 1948 design Romann Antiqua, as well as Stellar by Robert Hunter Middleton as predecessors, and notes the existence of Pascal by José Mendoza y Almeida (1962) as a design with a similar set of influences.
Falta Amor
Yeah yeah
This is optimo
Never say never
I, I used to say that Id live without your love girl,
I, I used to say that Id live without you.
Now its all night,
Lo que pasa es que en la noche no duermo pensando en tu amor.
Now its all day,
Cada momento que el telefono suena, pienso que eres tu.
Lo que pasa es que la manera en que vivimos,
No se puede olvidar la amor.
Y en mi casa cuando faltas tu,
Falto yo, y falta amor.
Y siento, que si tu no estas a mi lado voy a morir.
Las horas, van pasando tan lentamente en mi reloj,
Porque tu no estas...
(Im sorry baby I miss you so much now,
I wish I had you here)
(Yeah name, this is Optimo,
For the ladies.)
Pasa el invierno y la primavera y el otoño y el verano y yo esperandote,
Con la esperanza de que me perdones lo admito,
Se que cometi un error
Im sorry girl, por el daño que te e causado y te fui infiel.
Perdoname, te prometo cambiar totalmente todo por tu amor
Me haces falta amor
(FDL
)
Llamen a la ambulancia que me duele dentro el Corazon..
(Ay amor, ay que dolor
)
Ay amor que dolor llevo dentro de mi porque tu no estas,
Si yo por veces ni quiero despertar para mas no sentir,
(Este dolor, por tu amor..)
Consulto con un cardiologo, y le digo que no ay soluccion del dolor
en mi Corazon
Ay amor solo tu puedes curar este dolor en mi corazon,
Im sorry girl, por el daño que te e causado y te fui infiel.
Perdoname, te prometo cambiar totalmente todo por tu amor