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Octave 2.0 | An Art Deco Font Family

Name: Octave 2.0 | An Art Deco Font Family
Brand: Lauren Hodges
SKU: 292424103
Price: 21.00 USD
Availability: InStock

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About

Octave is a hand-lettered, all-caps Art Deco display font family inspired by music notes. The dots come from the repeat sign on sheet music, the pair of dots beside the bar line that tells the band to play a section of the music again. Every letter keeps the inked edge of the original drawings, so it feels printed by hand, not drawn by machine.

Version 2 is a full rebuild, with three styles that share the same spacing and kerning so you can swap between them without reflowing your text:

Octave Accent: the original, with a column of dots in every stroke
Octave Stripe: the same letters with no dots, a clean Deco stencil
Octave Solid: the stripes joined into one heavy, connected letter

WHAT'S INSIDE

3 styles: Accent, Stripe and Solid
707 characters per style, all caps
Professional spacing and kerning
Joined TT and TTT ligatures
10 music symbols: ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯, treble clef, bass clef, half note and a flagged note stem
10 hand-drawn Art Deco ornaments
Currency and symbols: $ £ € ¢ ¥ ₱ ₺ ƒ, © ® ™, § ¶ † ‡ and math signs
Superscripts and fractions: ¹ ² ³ ¼ ½ ¾
Bonus vectors: the original hand-drawn alphabet and ornament art (AI, EPS, PDF)

FILE FORMATS OTF, TTF, WOFF2, WOFF

LANGUAGE SUPPORT 135 languages verified with Hyperglot, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Catalan, Basque, Slovenian, Maltese, Afrikaans, Indonesian, Tagalog, Swahili and Vietnamese. Octave also fully covers English, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Turkish, Croatian, Welsh, Irish and Lithuanian. The full verified list is in the README.

PERFECT FOR Concert and event posters, album covers, logos and wordmarks, bar and restaurant menus, signage, invitations, packaging and social graphics.

GOOD TO KNOW

Octave is all caps: upper and lowercase keys type the same capitals.
Made for display sizes: use it at 24 px / 18 pt and up. Stripe and Solid hold up a little smaller.
Ligatures: turn on Discretionary Ligatures in Illustrator, InDesign or Photoshop. Ornaments and the note stem live in the Glyphs panel.
Updating from version 1? Uninstall the old font first. The original dotted design is now named Octave Accent, so older files that used Octave Regular will ask you to swap it in once.
A README with full instructions is included.

Thanks for supporting independent type! Lauren

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