Octant FONT Download

Octant was designed by Christian Thalmann and published by Catharsis Fonts. Octant contains 2 styles and family package options.  

Octant is an original display typeface drawing inspiration from Victorian-age steel and brass engineering, as well as from blackletter typography. Despite its many innovative departures from traditional letter architecture at the detail level, its overall shape is based on the familiar timeless proportions of humanist serif tradition, which renders it easily legible.

While Octant shines in display roles, it also performs well in short texts such as poetry or block quotes. Apart from serving as a fresh alternative to blackletter, it evokes hand-crafted metalwork, daring feats of engineering and innovation, and adventurous journeys on airships and sailboats. Thanks to its unique and unmistakable look, it delivers a memorable impact in any role.

Octant comes with extensive language support and a generous collection of ligatures. For ease of use in typographically unsavvy applications (such as PowerPoint), the distribution includes an alternate version of the font ('Octant Ligatures') in which all ligatures are encoded as standard rather than discretionary.

Acknowledgements: Many thanks to the helpful folks on the Typophile.com forums, whose feedback and support were crucial in developing Octant from a few doodles to a mature font! Special thanks to Rainer Scheichelbauer from glyphsapp.com for helping with localization and troubleshooting. Spacing and kerning by Igino Marini's iKern service. This font is dedicated to Simone.

Font Family:
· Octant
· Octant Ligatures


File Size: 21.30 MB

Tags: blackletter, capital sharp s, decorative, display, geek, humanist, serif, steampunk, technical, unique, versal eszett, victorian

Release date: February 4, 2013

You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)

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