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Octavian™ by Adobe Roman

- by Will Carter, David Kindersley
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Octavian™ by Adobe Std Roman
  Format: OpenType Std

Price: US$ 29.00
  
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Price: US$ 58.00

... is part of the Octavian™ by Adobe Font Family, comprising altogether 2 fonts in OpenType Std format.
Character set features:
stdr euro smallcaps osf fractions supersub ordinals ligatures proplining isoadobe2
487 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Octavian™ by Adobe Std Roman
Octavian™ by Adobe Std Italic
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Digital data from:
OpenType outline flavour:
CFF - PostScript flavoured
Technical font names:
File name:
OctavianMTStd.otf
Windows menu name:
Octavian MT Std
PostScript name:
OctavianMTStd
PostScript full names:
OctavianMTStd, Octavian MT Std Regular
Catalog material number:
16742450

Octavian™ by Adobe Roman
  Format: Windows TrueType

Price: US$ 26.00
  
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Price: US$ 156.00

... is part of the Octavian™ by Adobe Font Family, comprising altogether 6 fonts in Windows TrueType format.
Character set features:
euro
251 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Octavian™ by Adobe Roman
Octavian™ by Adobe Roman SC
Octavian™ by Adobe Italic
Octavian™ by Adobe Italic OsF
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Technical information
 
Digital data from:
Technical font names:
File name:
OCRG____.TTF
Windows menu name:
OctavianMT
PostScript name:
OctavianMT
PostScript full name:
OctavianMT
Catalog material number:
15151493

Octavian™ by Adobe Roman
  Format: Windows PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
Put the whole Octavian™ by Adobe Font Family into your shopping cart Complete Octavian™ by Adobe Font Family
(6 fonts) to shopping cart
Price: US$ 156.00

... is part of the Octavian™ by Adobe Font Family, comprising altogether 6 fonts in Windows PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro
230 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Octavian™ by Adobe Roman
Octavian™ by Adobe Roman SC
Octavian™ by Adobe Italic
Octavian™ by Adobe Italic OsF
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Product is contained in:
Technical information
 
Digital data from:
Technical font names:
File name:
ocrg____.pfb
Windows menu names:
Octavian MT, 0
PostScript name:
OctavianMT
PostScript full name:
Octavian MT
Catalog material number:
15351493

Octavian™ by Adobe Roman
  Format: Mac PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
Put the whole Octavian™ by Adobe Font Family into your shopping cart Complete Octavian™ by Adobe Font Family
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Price: US$ 156.00

... is part of the Octavian™ by Adobe Font Family, comprising altogether 6 fonts in Mac PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro
230 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Octavian™ by Adobe Roman
Octavian™ by Adobe Roman SC
Octavian™ by Adobe Italic
Octavian™ by Adobe Italic OsF
Is in Cart Complete font group 
into cart
Product is contained in:
Technical information
 
Digital data from:
Technical font names:
File name:
OctavMT
PostScript name:
OctavianMT
PostScript full name:
Octavian MT
Catalog material number:
15051493

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Documents referring to this product ...

Will Carter – born 24. 9. 1912 in Slough near London, England, died 17. 3. 2001 – type designer, printer. 1930–32: trains at the Unwin Brothers printing works in Woking. 1938: works at the Paul Koch workshop in Frankfurt am Main; becomes friends with Hermann Zapf. 1948: studies punch cutting with David Kindersley. 1949: founds the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge. Fonts: Klang™ (1955), Dartmouth (1961), Octavian™ (with D. Kindersley, 1962). * TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type [...]
David Kindersley (born 11. 6. 1915 in Codicote, died 2. 2. 1995 in Cambridge) and Will Carter designed the font Octavian™ in 1962. Mr. Carter writes: "While the ultimate authority is the ancient inscriptional pattern, the physical characteristics of the present rendering are manifest in the economic proportions of the shapes and the modified relations of the strokes. Thus, the letters are narrower than the classical forms and their weight heavier.” Octavian is a fine book face and works well [...]

About Octavian™ by Adobe Roman ...

Linotype usage sample for Octavian™ by Adobe Std Roman
Designer: Will Carter / David Kindersley, 1962
Octavian™ by Adobe Roman belongs to the Octavian™ by Adobe Font Family which is part of the Monotype Originals.
Octavian font was designed by Will Carter and David Kindersley for the Monotype Corporation in 1961.
Mr. Carter writes: "While the ultimate authority is the ancient inscriptional pattern, the physical characteristics of the present rendering are manifest in the economic proportions of the shapes and the modified relations of the strokes. Thus, the letters are narrower than the classical forms and their weight heavier."
Octavian is a fine book font and works well for other text settings that are less demanding, such as magazines and brochures.
Search this or similar products by the following keywords: 1960s, 60s, anno 1960, Book, British, Catalogs, Catalogues, Classic, Elegant, English, Fine, Humanist, individual, Magazine, Newsletters, Personal, Serif, Text.

Octavian is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

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