RELEASE DATE : 2006-04-27
AUTHOR : Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot
DELIVERY : Email to your paypal email address.
Octovetica started as an experimentations about a key aspect of computer typography : rasterization.
Letters within a type are usually drawn with continuous linear shapes and curves. But to be shown on-screen, which only has small discreet squarred dots to built images with, the curves are rasterized, that is transformed into a series of dots that optically simulates the curves. So if you look closely at an Helvetica on a computer screen, you see a very different face, specifically calculated to cheat your eyes, making them believe it is an Helvetica. An impostor !
We found this paradox very stimulating, and wanted to find a way to make it "striking". So we created this Octovetica family that exploits this paradox the exact opposite way : it is a square-shaped type family, that has been specifically designed to looks curved when used on screen at small sizes : at large size it looks squarred, and at small size it gets curved ! And the great thing is that this "mutating" type ended up being a very modern and versatile type !
And even, beyond this curve/square matter it also shows how this rasterizing is linked to the emerging of Mixed serifs, typographies that have letters with serifs, and some others without : while creating Octovetica, we saw that, in order to get a sans serif shape on screen, the letter sometime HAS TO feature some serif at its end (capital A is a clear example of that).
The v2.0 release of Octovetica includes 4 variants from Light to Black, fully accentuated and with all required diacritics, signs, and more than 500 kerning pairs. Enjoy !
This is a commercial font family, sold at a cheap price.
But you can download Octovetica Free, a version of Octovetica Regular without accents. Octovetica Free is offered as a FREEWARE font (N9.037X), and is available at the following link : nemoeditions.com/N9/free/N9.037X.zip
[Note that some free font sites keep distributing an unofficial beta release of Octovetica unkerned and with some missing glyphs : this old version is now obsolete and shall be replaced with Octovetica Free].
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After a bunch of tracks in the early days of Techno & Rave explosion, N9 focused on graphic design and conceptual
Typography, creating free or shareware fonts.
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