Octant was designed by Christian Thalmann and published by Catharsis Fonts. Octant includes 2 styles and family plan options. p > Octant is an original display screen typeface drawing inspiration from Victorian-age steel and brass engineering, as well as from blackletter typography. Regardless of its numerous innovative departures from conventional letter architecture at the information level, its overall shape is based on the familiar classic percentages of humanist serif tradition, which renders it easily legible.

While Octant shines in screen roles, it likewise performs well in other words texts such as poetry or block quotes. Apart from acting as a fresh option to blackletter, it stimulates hand-crafted metalwork, bold tasks of engineering and innovation, and daring journeys on airships and sailboats. Thanks to its distinct and unmistakable appearance, it delivers a memorable effect in any role.

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

Acknowledgements: Many thanks to the useful folks on the Typophile.com forums, whose feedback and support were vital in developing Octant from a couple of doodles to a mature font! Special thanks to Rainer Scheichelbauer from glyphsapp.com for aiding with localization and troubleshooting. Spacing and kerning by Igino Marini's iKern service. This typeface is committed to Simone.

Font Family:
· Octant
· Octant Ligatures

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