Opus Std Font

Bold, 18pt

To understand Opus Std, one must look back at the typographic trends of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a period dominated by the (Swiss Style), but designers began craving more organic, readable sans-serifs for extended text. The late 1990s saw the rise of "humanist sans-serifs" like Frutiger (1986), FF Scala Sans (1993), and Thesis (1994). Opus was developed within this context, positioning itself as a friendlier alternative to Helvetica. Opus Std Font