Opal™ Font Family

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Two new Linotype families: The following pages illustrate two great new Linotype families: Opal™ and Snoogle™. Opal was designed by Hannes von Döhren. Hannes collaborated with Raimo Böse on the Snoogle project. Both Hannes and Raimo are young, Berlin-based designers. We hope that you enjoy their work! In addition to designing these typefaces, they created the illustrations in this feature as well. Opal: An elegant serif addition

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Hannes von Döhren was born in Berlin/Germany in 1979. After completing his studies (graphic design) in 2005, he worked in an advertising agency in Hamburg/Germany. Since 2007 he has been working as a freelancing graphic designer in Berlin, which allows him to spend some of his time developing fonts as well. Linotype released Quench® in 2008, the first of Hannes von Döhren’s typefaces in the Linotype library. In 2009, he added Opal™ and Snoogle™ (Snoogle was designed in [...]

Opal is a text face with a noble feeling, yearning for luxury and still delivering. Because of the long ascenders that rise clearly above the capital letters, Opal should be set with generous line spacing. The typeface's design has the attributes of the oldstyle Renaissance serifs, yet Opal is not based on any specific predecessors. Through undulating strokes and sharp corners, a cutout feeling is created; Opal's letters sport inktraps at stroke junctions, which this strengthen this image in larger point sizes even further. In total, the letterforms have clear emphasis on their verticals and horizontals; they do not fear the weight on their curves. In addition to an Italic and Bold variant, Opal has a Script member of the family. Opal Script is perfectly suited for additional text emphasis, or as an alternative to the typeface's Italic.