Oceanwide Pro
Font Family by California Type Foundry
Includes 45 Font Styles from $499
Buy NowOceanwide's ultra clean letters work anywhere you want to communicate orderliness and competence, and designed to build trust and rapport with your audience. Its wide proportions make it ideal for display and logo use.
Oceanwide especially shines for white/bright letters on black/dark backgrounds! That's because the inside shapes are nearly perfect circles in many weights.
Here's a quick video tour of Oceanwide Pro by Dave Lawrence, including all the great things Oceanwide can be used for!
We've tested Oceanwide for these industries, with stunning results!: ? Tech ? Arts ? Fashion & Style ? Business & Branding ? Corporations ? Logistics ? Architecture ? Food and many more . . .
Oceanwide can be used for: ? Headers ? Subheadlines ? Logos ? Even body text, if tracked. ? Print & Screen
The styles it can take are also many. It's great for: ? Modern/minimalist design ? Flat design ? Cut out design ? User Interface (UI) ? Technical designs ? In combination with text effects, even for grunge and other situations. ? And many others...
DESIGN FEATURES ? Simplicity ? Tall x-height ? Hand-sloped obliques (italics) ? Narrow spacing ? Semi-wide proportions ? Expert kerning ? Well proportioned, usable lights & extra lights ? Large caps ? Great ALL CAPS MODE ? Uppercase punctuation ? Uppercase spacing with California Type Foundry's Smart Tracking? ? Advanced fraction support ? Proportional lining figures ? Thick joins ? Smooth curves ? Sturdy?great for textures and effects ? Variable font available ? Latin Pro character set for Central European languages. That's the writing for over 782 languages and transliterations worldwide!
DESIGN STORY?THE FORGOTTEN SANS by Dave Lawrence, Lead Designer, California Type Foundry
Adrian Frutiger was the 20th century master of sans, but I didn't realize he had made?not one?but TWO geometric sans!
It wasn't until I had purchased the book ?Adrian Frutiger: Typefaces?. I had hoped to someday meet Adrian Frutiger, but he passed away that very same year.
Here is the story of Frutiger's forgotten sans. Back in 1968, Frutiger was approached by Pentagram to make a design for British Petroleum. They wanted a "new version of Futura". However, they wanted him to make a couple adjustments. First, they felt that Futura was "too fiddly." By this, they meant that it narrowed too much at the joins. (Joins are for example where the round and straight parts of the 'd' meet.) This is something that is necessary for small print text (to prevent ink clogging), but is not necessary at large sizes.
Second, they wanted it to be entirely geometric, using the circular shape with minimal optical corrections.
Unfortunately this font was not even used very consistently in the BP brand. A haphazard mix of Futura and Frutiger's BP font ensued. It was then replaced by another font design very soon after.
My design is different in several ways. First, the commas and quotes are a more modern style. I tried his original commas, but these just didn't work to 21st century eyes. Second, in his drawings, Frutiger went for a more standard u with a downstroke on the right. However, Oceanwide has a simpler u.
Third, I made more optical adjustments. At the direction of his employer, Frutiger reluctantly put no font optical corrections into the letters. So I think my optical adjustments are similar to what Frutiger would have wanted.
Fourth, I extended the weight into the light and extra light ranges.
Fifth, the rest of the font I created according to the principles of Adrian Frutiger, but with no sources for inspiration.
Here is Frutiger's design philosophy, in his own words: ?If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.?
The words about the spoon were the ones I kept in my mind as I tried to make the curves ultra smooth, and the shapes ultra simple.
Hopefully this font is a worthy successor to the font that inspired it.
Simplicity. Versatility. Oceanwide.
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45 Fonts Included
Oceanwide Pro Quasi Light Oblique | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Quasi Light Oblique
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Semibold Oblique | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Semibold Oblique
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Bold Leaning | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Bold Leaning
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Bold Slanted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Bold Slanted
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Extra Bold Leaning | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Extra Bold Leaning
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Medium Oblique | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Medium Oblique
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Bold Oblique | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Bold Oblique
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Extra Bold Oblique | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Extra Bold Oblique
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Extra Light Oblique | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Extra Light Oblique
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Heavy Oblique | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Heavy Oblique
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Light Oblique | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Light Oblique
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Extra Bold Slant | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Extra Bold Slant
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Extra Light Leaning | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Extra Light Leaning
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Extra Light Slant | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Extra Light Slant
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Semi Bold Slant | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Semi Bold Slant
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Extra Light Tilted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Extra Light Tilted
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Oceanwide Pro Light Tilted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Light Tilted
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Oceanwide Pro Quasi Light Tilted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Quasi Light Tilted
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Medium Tilted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Medium Tilted
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Semibold Tilted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Semibold Tilted
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Extra Bold Tilted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Extra Bold Tilted
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Semi Bold Leaning | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Semi Bold Leaning
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Quasi Light Slant | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Quasi Light Slant
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Heavy Leaning | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Heavy Leaning
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Heavy Slanted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Heavy Slanted
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Light Leaning | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Light Leaning
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Light Slanted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Light Slanted
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Medium Leaning | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Medium Leaning
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Medium Slanted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Medium Slanted
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Quasi Light Leaning | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Quasi Light Leaning
from $47
Oceanwide Pro Heavy Tilted | View All 508 Glyphs
Oceanwide Pro Heavy Tilted
from $47
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