Octant

What is the Octant Font?

Octant is an original display typeface drawing inspiration from Victorian-age steel and brass engineering, as well as from blackletter typography. Despite its many innovative departures from traditional letter architecture at the detail level, its overall shape is based on the familiar timeless proportions of humanist serif tradition, which renders it easily legible.. While Octant shines in display roles, it also performs well in short texts such as poetry or block quotes. Apart from serving as a fresh alternative to blackletter, it evokes hand-crafted metalwork, daring feats of engineering and innovation, and adventurous journeys on airships and sailboats. Thanks to its unique and unmistakable look, it delivers a memorable impact in any role.. Octant comes with extensive language support and a generous collection of ligatures. For ease of use in typographically unsavvy applications (such as PowerPoint), the distribution includes an alternate version of the font («Octant Ligatures») in which all ligatures are encoded as standard rather than discretionary.. Acknowledgements: Many thanks to the helpful folks on the Typophile.com forums, whose feedback and support were crucial in developing Octant from a few doodles to a mature font! Special thanks to Rainer Scheichelbauer from glyphsapp.com for helping with localization and troubleshooting. Spacing and kerning by Igino Marini’s iKern service. This font is dedicated to Simone.

Octant Font Families

When you download Octant, the family will include the following font styles:

• Octant Regular
• Octant Ligatures

Preview of the Octant Font

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Who Designed the Octant Font?

This font has 2 style(s) and was published by Catharsis Fonts.

Is Octant a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Octant is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Octant. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Octant for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Octant if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Octant to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Octant for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Octant, it was available for as little as $20.00.