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Fontpartners [Morten Rostgaard Olsen] Danish type cooperative by Ole Søndergaard (b. 1937) and Morten Rostgaard Olsen (b. 1964). Olsen is a graphic and type designer who lives and works in Copenhagen. Morten Rostgaard Olsen's typefaces include FF Olsen, FP Max (2003, elliptical sans inspired by Novarese's Eurostile from 1962). Søndergaard has had his own design studio since 1972, and has taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. His most famous font family is FF Signa (2000). He also created Thule Letters (2005) based on carved letters on Knud Rasmussen's monument. Together, they made FP Dancer (2007, an upright part script part sans part serif concoction), FP Dancer Tango (2014), FP Palina (stencil, 2005), FP Quality (stencil, 2005), FP Silly (stencil, 2005; free at Fontshop), FP Stage (fat display grunge, 2005). Custom fonts include Elsinore (2005, serif), Public (2005), Signa Tryg (Søndergaard, 2003). Olsen's Dancer (2007), is described by Jan Middendorp as follows: In the sans serif realm, spelling out human and warm, while avoiding to become childish or silly, isn't as easy as some type designers assume. Morten Olsen's Dancer is one of those new, and newly conceived, text faces that seem to do the job. It strikes a balance between typographic quality and charisma, between conventional wisdom about legibility, and expressiveness. Also, it has an equally eloquent serifed companion. Other Fontpartners fonts: FP Head, FP Head Stencil, FP Head Pro (2011, described by them as a broad headline font, with a blur-style architecture. The typeface has a touch of FP Max, hard and soft at the same time). In 2014, Olsen extended FF Max to FF Max Pro and FF Max Condensed Pro. Søndergaard and Olsen cooperated in 2015 on the rough stencil font FP Fragile. FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Morton Olsen's typefaces.	EXTERNAL LINKS Fontpartners [Buy fonts] [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ The Danish type scene ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿