Ogle

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Ogle

Ogle is a display serif typeface designed to feel refined yet playful, balancing character and versatility.

Role

Typeface Design, Poster Design

Timeline

February–April 2021

The words; spring, summer, fall, and winter, written in four distinct weights of the Ogle typeface.

A page detailing Ogle's proportions, with its large x-height and smaller ascenders and descenders.

A page demonstrating Ogle's italic influence, with the typeface's e and y being heavily inspired by italic forms.

Four pages, each with the same quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, set in Ogle's Thin, Regular, Semibold, and Black weights.

The word thought, set in Ogle Thin, and the word feeling, set in Ogle Bold.

The word Rag set in Ogle taking up an entire page.

features

Ogle features a high x-height, large counters, italic-inspired letterforms, and a characteristic lean. It is available in a variety of weights, from refined and understated lighter weights, to extravagant, high-contrast styles on the heavy end of the family.

The lowercase characters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet set in Ogle Regular.

The uppercase characters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet set in Ogle Regular.

A series of words from different languages set in various weights of Ogle, demonstrating its linguistic coverage.

in use

These posters demonstrate how Ogle can work alongside varied imagery, offering a distinct voice and unique letterforms, yet not detracting from or competing against the other elements on the page.

A poster for the Metropolitan Museum of Art with text in Ogle alongside a 16th century Northern European painting.

A poster for the Metropolitan Museum of Art with text in Ogle alongside an 18th century Japanese woodblock print.

Pieces of paper, each with different words printed on them in the Ogle typeface, scattered across a black background.