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"Ogg"
Lucas Sharp
Brooklyn, New york
Pagan and Sharp
2014 Typeface Design Winner
Typography 35
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I feel I should warn that I haven't learned anything about typefaces except for a couple excerpts in lectures. Anyway, I think this display typeface does a fantastic job with emphasis, and mostly maintains alignment but breaks it in very tasteful ways. The italic scripts capital letters are super fancy, are allowed a ton of room to do their thing and are lent a ton of extra weight but are thoughtful not to rise above other tall lower-case lettering. Both are very formal, but I feel for different context. I am reminded of something very classical with the script, while the roman speaks to me of business or something like that. The "e" in the roman is particularly intriguing, it's the only letter allowed to touch another letter. While it does continue the drawn line of text, it draws in the eye a bit (albeit in a good way) for being very different from the others.