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Otama

Otama

by Tim Donaldson
Individual Styles from $49.00
Otama Font Family was designed by Tim Donaldson and published by Tim Donaldson. Otama contains 28 styles.

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About Otama Font Family


From the dainty light weight through to the striking UltraBold, Otama raises the bar to a new level of dangerous sophistication. Although easily classified alongside Modern typefaces such as Didot and Bodoni, Otama was purposely developed with minimum reference to these two visual heavy weights. In search of something more than a mere historical revival, Otama instead draws proportional reference from popular 20th century Transitional and Garalde typefaces with visual inspiration coming from calligraphic studies. Many characteristics from Tim Donaldson’s 2010 display face Pyes Pa were directly passed on in execution of Otama — The shoelaced k, e and a being the most obvious examples of this family relation. Refined over 2 years with well over 8,000 characters over 28 styles, Otama certainly deserves its place as a comprehensive and versatile typeface in any designer’s font library.

Designers: Tim Donaldson

Publisher: Tim Donaldson

Foundry: Tim Donaldson

Original Foundry: unknown

Design Owner: Tim Donaldson

MyFonts debut: Nov 13, 2012

Otama

About Tim Donaldson

Located in the deep South Pacific island nation of New Zealand, Tim Donaldson Design specializes in finely crafting typography informed by the rich history of type and inspired by the unique pacific culture of New Zealand. Tim Donaldson has spent time designing in London, UK and Ahmedabad, India where he worked with the Indian Type Foundry to develop Indian scripts of his most popular type family Otama.

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