October

Die Foundry Typotheque hat eine neue Schrift herausgebracht. October, von Peter Biľak gestaltet, ist die industrielle rundliche Erweiterung von November. Sie basiert auf dem Skelett der November und wurde mit einem Rotationsmesser einer CNC Fräse in Holz geschnitten und schließlich digitalisiert. Durch unterschiedliche Messergrößen wurde die Strichstärke variiert.

October’s rounded strokes are inherent to the milling technique that inspired it. October is a warmer version of November. While November is a rational, utilitarian typeface inspired by street signage, October has a different relationship to its industrial past. Its round letter terminals were created by the rotary cutters of a CNC router. Changing the size of the cutters changed the stroke widths of the letterforms.

Starting with simple, monolinear skeletons of November’s various weights, we used the router to engrave the letters in a block of wood, experimenting with the sizes of the letters and the milling cutters. The results were optically corrected to create a functional digital font family that works at a variety of medium to large text sizes.

October emanates the same no-frills, no-nonsense attitude as November, but its rounded stroke endings lend it a friendlier character useful for signage, branding, headlines and even editorial purposes. It is available in three logical widths (Normal, Condensed, Compressed), and three writing scripts (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek). Hebrew and Arabic are under development and will follow shortly. 

October
Designer: Peter Biľak
Foundry: Typotheque
Veröffentlichung: Dezember 2016
Schnitte: Normal, Condensed, Compressed mit je 18 Schnitten (Hairline, Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Heavy, Black plus Italics)
Einzelschnitt ab 90,- Euro
Preis pro Familie ab 590,- Euro
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