Ogaki was designed by a young Hungarian type addict called Áron Jancsó. He is 23 freelancing and learning typography at MOME, Budapest. He likes to work from scratch from designing every single letter of a poster to taking pictures for textures. His work is mostly experimental, blending modernism, graffiti, 3D, calligraphy, and obsolete techniques with the power of vector graphics.
Ogaki is a fresh experimental display family available from Gestalten. It is super heavy and delicate, extravagant and legible at the same time. It was inspired by modernism, calligraphy, and traditional serif typefaces. Simplicity, elegance and geometric approach comes from modernism. Serifs and terminals were inspired by calligraphy, to break up the strict coldness of modernism. Ogaki is great for various display purposes such as logotypes, magazine headlines, posters and covers. Fits well to the world of fashion, design, music and much more.
The design started as a type experiment without any intension to end up as a typeface. The initial idea was to design something really heavy. It’s a play of positives and negatives, big and small, thin and fat, all of this with very high contrast. As a result of this game the lowercase ‘g’ was born and it shouted for a whole new character set.
Finally it turned out to be a family of 4 fonts: Poster for large point sizes, Poster Outline, Text for small sizes, and Text Outline. The text version features 6 times thicker white hairlines and serifs and the outline version are using the same stroke width as the hairlines in the fill versions. Ogaki comes in Standard, CE, and PRO sets, all having Opentype features as ligatures and old style numerals.
