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Fontpartners [Morten Rostgaard Olsen]

Danish type cooperative by Ole Søndergaard (b. 1937) and Morten Rostgaard Olsen (b. 1964), located in Helsingor, Denmark. Olsen is a graphic and type designer who lives and works in Copenhagen. Ole Søndergaard is basd in Elsinore, Denmark.

Morten Rostgaard Olsen's typefaces include FF Olsen, FF Max (2003, an elliptical sans inspired by Novarese's Eurostile from 1962). In 2014, Olsen extended FF Max to FF Max Pro and FF Max Condensed Pro. Ole 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. Custom fonts include Public (2005) and Signa Tryg (Søndergaard, 2003). Together, as Fontpartners, they published these typefaces:

• FP Dancer Pro (2006) and FP Dancer Serif (2006). By Morten Rostgaard Olsen. An upright part script part sans part serif concoction. Followed by the more octagonal FP Dancer Tango (2014). Olsen's Dancer 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 typefaces 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.
• FP Elsinore (1980-2006) by Ole Berntsen Søndergaard. FP Elsinore was originally custom-made for street name signs in the city of Elsinore.
• FP Fragile (2015), jointly designed by the Fontpartners. FP Fragile is a worn and scratched stencil typeface, inspired by packages, package-design and shipments.
• FP Head Pro (2008, by Morten Rostgaard Olsen) and FP Head (2006). FP Head is a redesign of a corporate typeface for the Danish trade union FOA, and is 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. Yves Peters writes: Architectural yet human, as if the letter forms had been delicately carved in stone; their rounded stroke edges and corners lovingly eroded by the surf of the Baltic Sea; slightly overexposed, radiating comforting warmth, giving the impression one was looking at the characters against the setting sun.. See also FP Head Stencil.
• Morten Rostgaard Olsen and Fontpartners colleagues Ole Søndergaard and Henrik Birkvig co-designed the free typefaces KBH and KBH Pictos, also in 2015, for the visual identity of the city of Copenhagen. At the retail level, one can buy FP Kobenhavn (2016) at MyFonts and FontShop. Olsen's FP Kobenhavn Sans and Kobenhavn C were added in 2019.
• FP Palina (2005). A stencil typeface by Ole Søndergaard.
• FP Quality (2005). A stencil typeface by Ole Berntsen Søndergaard.
• FP Silly (2006-2007). A stencil typeface by Ole Berntsen Søndergaard.
• FP Stage (2005). FP Stage by Ole Berntsen Søndergaard was inspired by old Victorian theater posters and corresponding typographic designs.

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