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Oban

Oban™

by Alias
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Complete family of 8 fonts: $250.00 USD
Oban Font Family was designed by published by Alias. Oban contains 22 styles family package options.

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    Oban Complete Package

    8 fonts

    Best Value!

    • Oban Round Oban Round

    • Oban Triangle Oban Triangle

    • Oban Round Back Italic Oban Round Back Italic

    • Oban Triangle Back Italic Oban Triangle Back Italic

    • Oban Round Outline Oban Round Outline

    • Oban Triangle Outline Oban Triangle Outline

    • Oban Round Outline Back Italic Oban Round Outline Back Italic

    • Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic

    Per Style:

    $31.25 USD

    Pack of 8 styles:

    $250.00 USD

    • Oban Triangle Oban Triangle

    • Oban Triangle Back Italic Oban Triangle Back Italic

    • Oban Triangle Outline Oban Triangle Outline

    • Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic

    Per Style:

    $42.50 USD

    Pack of 4 styles:

    $170.00 USD

    • Oban Round Oban Round

    • Oban Round Back Italic Oban Round Back Italic

    • Oban Round Outline Oban Round Outline

    • Oban Round Outline Back Italic Oban Round Outline Back Italic

    Per Style:

    $42.50 USD

    Pack of 4 styles:

    $170.00 USD

    • Oban Triangle Oban Triangle

    • Oban Triangle Back Italic Oban Triangle Back Italic

    Per Style:

    $50.00 USD

    Pack of 2 styles:

    $100.00 USD

    • Oban Triangle Outline Oban Triangle Outline

    • Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic

    Per Style:

    $50.00 USD

    Pack of 2 styles:

    $100.00 USD

    • Oban Round Outline Oban Round Outline

    • Oban Round Outline Back Italic Oban Round Outline Back Italic

    Per Style:

    $50.00 USD

    Pack of 2 styles:

    $100.00 USD

    About the family


    Originally drawn as a rebranding proposal for a fashion house, Oban takes inspiration from Thorowgood types and from sample books of wood cut fonts from the late nineteenth century, with their spirited and expressive, heavyweight graphic, sometimes naively drawn forms. Oban has a modular geometry and its character shape has an extra sharpness, with the slight curve connecting vertical to horizontal and curve to straight line of the originals reduced to a sharp angle. It has two versions, with ball terminals or triangular serifs, each with a backwards italics and outline. The backwards italic suggests the kind of self-consciously quirky idea a nineteenth century type founder might have had.

    Designers:

    Publisher: Alias

    Foundry: Alias

    Design Owner: Alias

    MyFonts debut: Jun 22, 2012

    Oban™

    About Alias

    Alias was formed in 1996 by Gareth Hague and David James initially to develop into typefaces the bespoke lettering designs produced for their record cover and book projects. As well as typeface design, Alias has produced logotype designs for clients including Ghost, L.K.Bennett, MCQ, Jennifer Lopez for Kohl's, Lane Crawford, Calvin Klein Beauty fragrance and Prada Candy fragrance. For Prada Candy this included the development o...

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