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Ovink

Ovink™

by The Northern Block
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Complete family of 18 fonts: $229.99
Ovink Font Family was designed by Sofie Beier and published by The Northern Block. Ovink contains 18 styles and family package options.

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About Ovink Font Family


Ovink is a rounded type family designed for great distance legibility. Named after the legibility researcher Gerrit Willem Ovink, in its early stages was subjected to experimental legibilty investigations of distance and time threshold methods. The results of this heavily influence the design. The high regularity of the letters also makes the typeface suitable for running text and the wide span of weights motivates a broad usage for the setting of both display and text. Ovink is also loosely inspired by Knud V. Engelhardt’s work for the street signage, designed around the years 1926-27 for Gentofte in Denmark. Being rooted in the Danish typography tradition, Ovink has a sturdy unpretentious look to it, yet compared to its predecessor the curves are tighter, and characters have a higher level of differentiation. Details include 9 weights with matching italics.

Designers: Sofie Beier

Publisher: The Northern Block

Foundry: The Northern Block

Design Owner: The Northern Block

MyFonts debut: Jan 13, 2017

Ovink™

About The Northern Block

Founded in 2006 by Jonathan Hill, The Northern Block is a collaborative type foundry internationally recognised for producing modernist fonts for brands, creatives and makers. The Northern Block's highly skilled and enthusiastic global team, designs and develops award-winning retail and custom typefaces, and is pushing forward the design of non-latin scripts, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew.The Premium foundry page can be viewed Here.

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