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OpenType PS (.otf)
Windows
OpenType PS (.otf)
legacy formats available upon request
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About Odile
Odile's inspiration came originally from an experimental typeface named 'Charter', designed by William Addison Dwiggins around 1936. He designed the lower cases only and the typeface was never commercially released. Charter, informal in its shape, upright and suggestive of script, though the letters were non-joining, was obviously not a book type. I became interested in the forms of the typeface many years ago, and while working on a reinterpretation of it, I became increasingly interested in the challenge of designing a typeface for extended text setting. In combination, this set the goal of creating a text type family with variants encompassing and accompanying a reinterpretation of Dwiggins' original Charter.
Odile was among the awarded projects in this year's Swiss design competition, even before its commercial release.
[Odile is pronounced "Oh-deel"]
Supported languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arumanian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, romanised Belarusian, Bislama, Breton, Bosnian, romanised Bulgarian, romanised Burmese, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Old English, Middle English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, traditional German, transliterated Greek, Greenlandic, Guarani, Hawai'ian, Hungarian, Ibo, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, romanised Japanese, Kashubian, romanised Kazakh, romanised Korean, Kurdish, romanised Kyrgyz, romanised Laotian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Livonian, romanised Macedonian, Malagasy, Maltese, Maori, Marshallese, Moldavian, romanised Mongolian, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansch, romanised Russian, Inari Saami, North Saami, Lule Saami, Skolt Saami, South Saami, Samoan, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Traditional Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, romanised Tajik, romanised Tatar, Tswana, Tongan, Turkish, romanised Turkmen, romanised Ukrainian, Ulithian, Uzbek, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Yapese, and many transliterated South Asian languages
Supported ISO codepages
8859-1 Latin 1 (West European)
8859-2 Latin 2 (Central European)
8859-3 Latin 3 (South European)
8859-4 Latin 4 (Baltic)
8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish)
8859-10 Latin 6 (Scandinavian)
8859-13 Latin 7 (Baltic 2)
8859-15 Latin 9
8859-16 Latin 10
Glyphset contents
// Integrated Small Caps with full accents in Roman & Italic weights
// Six numeral sets: Oldstyle Proportional, Lining Proportional, Lining Tabular, Oldstyle Tabular, with Small Cap Proportional and Small Cap Tabular in Roman & Italic weights
// Alternate glyphs in Roman: a, æ (with accents) in an OpenType Stylistic Set
// Alternate glyphs in Italic: g, s (with accents) in an OpenType Stylistic Set
// Common mathematical symbols
// Fractions: 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4 (OpenType feature-enabled)
// Monetary symbols for Euro, Dollar, Cent, Pound, Florin, and Yen
// A set of ligatures: fb ffb ff fh ffh fi ffi fj ffj fk ffk fl ffl ft fft ftt tt, including Turkish variants of f and ff with dotless i
// A set of discretionary ligatures: ct gi gj sp st www
// Ordinal a and o, and basic superscript lowercase in Roman & Italic weights
// Commercial glyphs: TM, copyright, registered
// A full complement of spaces: en, em, 3/em, 4/em, 6/em, figure, punctuation, thin, hair, zero-width
// A full complement of dashes for Ulc and UC setting: hyphen, 1/3 em, en, 3/4 em, em, figure
// "Licko-style" mirrored single and double quotation marks in an OpenType Stylistic Set
// Regular and Small Cap ampersands
// The interrobang, the combination exclamation/question mark, including inverted versions for Spanish interrobanging