Free Font Friday: Osgard
Our Free Font Friday series profiles the design characteristics of today’s free downloadable typefaces.
Typographer and Creative Director Anthony James from Manchester England has created a luxury typeface inspired by gothic black-letter and Romanesque typography.
Osgard Pro is an artful display type that’s both classic and fashion-forward. The typeface blends the bold black letter with the flowing Romanesque style effortlessly. The end result is a high-quality impressive display type excellently suited for book cover design, editorial headlines, posters, and typographic art prints.
The typeface is fully-featured with 1000 swashes, stylistic alternates, contextual alternates, and conjunction ligatures. The type designer has included a separate TTF file with just the swashes, to make it easier to create beautifully ornate compositions.
Osgard Pro is $30 but an edited free version can be found at James’ Behance page here.
Margaret Penney is an experienced Brand Designer and Art Director as well as a teacher, designer, writer, and new media artist and Founder and Principal Designer of The Design Craft and 9& Studio.Read more articles by Margaret.
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