ITC Octone font
ITC Octone family fonts (ITC library) are available in OpenType, TrueType, PostScript (Type1) formats for PC and Mac.
You can buy and download them online. Click on the font picture to see more detailed font sample.
ITC Octone is a condensed sans serif text face with a geometrical heart but a relaxed soul. French designer Eric de Berranger learned his passion for drawing letters from his professor of typography, Jean-Francois Porchez. De Berranger drew Octone, which he calls an incised lineal, between October 1996 and January 1997. "I wanted to make a sans serif that was less geometrical than the ones I knew," he says, "to give it a drawn aspect, made with the hand and not with the compass." The slightly swelling ends of the strokes in Octone are reminiscent of Adrian Frutiger's Icone or Hermann Zapf's Optima; they soften and humanize the rigid forms. The effect on the page is strong and plain, yet subtle. The Octone family includes small caps and old-style figures, in both regular and bold weights; the old style figures are especially stylish. The character set includes a full set of f-ligatures.
|
|
