The Ogg Superfamily is an amalgam of disparate influences, ranging from early experimental imperfectionism to a more studied, functional execution in the text styles.
The Ogg font family, designed by Lucas Sharp and first released in 2013, serves as a contemporary revival of the calligraphic hand-lettering of Oscar Ogg, a prolific 20th-century book designer and calligrapher. The typeface is celebrated for its unique blend of expressive calligraphic strokes and structured typographic forms, capturing the fluid energy of Ogg's hand-carved pen nibs and brushes within a digital framework. Design Philosophy and Evolution Ogg Font Family
: Developed with help from Connor Davenport and Wei Huang, this variant adapts the display face's elegance for body copy. It infuses the original's calligraphic flair with oldstyle and transitional text face models, resulting in a design that reviewers at Sharp Type describe as having an "unmistakably Dutch flavor". Technical Characteristics The Ogg Superfamily is an amalgam of disparate
The Ogg Superfamily is an amalgam of disparate influences, ranging from early experimental imperfectionism to a more studied, functional execution in the text styles.
The Ogg font family, designed by Lucas Sharp and first released in 2013, serves as a contemporary revival of the calligraphic hand-lettering of Oscar Ogg, a prolific 20th-century book designer and calligrapher. The typeface is celebrated for its unique blend of expressive calligraphic strokes and structured typographic forms, capturing the fluid energy of Ogg's hand-carved pen nibs and brushes within a digital framework. Design Philosophy and Evolution
: Developed with help from Connor Davenport and Wei Huang, this variant adapts the display face's elegance for body copy. It infuses the original's calligraphic flair with oldstyle and transitional text face models, resulting in a design that reviewers at Sharp Type describe as having an "unmistakably Dutch flavor". Technical Characteristics