Special Mention
Ottessa
by Philipp Neumeyer
Script Group:
Cyrillic
Category:
B2 Display Typefaces with a latin complement
Typeface Competition:
13th GRANSHAN Type Design Competition 2023/2024
Remarks of the Jury
Distinctive character with strong italic that successfully carries over to Cyrillic whose stylistic choice is rather uncommon but confidently handled.
Description of the Typeface by the Submitter
The typeface is a hybrid of euphoria and misinterpretation, it is a melting pot combining all the sweets with a dash of savouriness for substance. A large x- height and compact proportions make this friendly chimaera an accomplice in changing up the typography landscape from cold purebreds into colourful crossbreeds. While the low-contrast weights from Extralight to Bold maintain the same transition from straight stem to curve, the vicious Extrabold takes a high- contrast approach. Extralight’s spiky triangular forms transform into stilted flats and vertical strokes take on the same thickness as the horizontals. Steeply angled polysemic Italics take on a dynamic, humanistic approach with fast upstrokes and seemingly rotated rounds. With native-approved Cyrillic, and a broad Latin character set, the font speaks more than 270 languages. A plethora of OpenType features like case-sensitive punctuation, figure sets, alternates, arrows and symbols enrich its toolbox.