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Octavian™ by Adobe Italic

- by Will Carter, David Kindersley
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Octavian™ by Adobe Std Italic
  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 osf fractions supersub ordinals ligatures proplining isoadobe2
344 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-Italic.otf
Windows menu name:
Octavian MT Std
PostScript name:
OctavianMTStd-Italic
PostScript full names:
OctavianMTStd-Italic, Octavian MT Std Italic
Catalog material number:
16742451

Octavian™ by Adobe Italic
  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:
OCI_____.TTF
Windows menu name:
OctavianMT
PostScript name:
OctavianMT-Italic
PostScript full name:
OctavianMT Italic
Catalog material number:
15151496

Octavian™ by Adobe Italic
  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:
oci_____.pfb
Windows menu names:
Octavian MT, 0
PostScript name:
OctavianMT-Italic
PostScript full name:
Octavian MT Italic
Catalog material number:
15351496

Octavian™ by Adobe Italic
  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
(6 fonts) to shopping cart
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:
OctavMTIta
PostScript name:
OctavianMT-Italic
PostScript full name:
Octavian MT Italic
Catalog material number:
15051496

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 Italic ...

Linotype usage sample for Octavian™ by Adobe Std Italic
Designer: Will Carter / David Kindersley, 1962
Octavian™ by Adobe Italic 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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