What is the Ovink font?
Ovink is a rounded type family designed for great distance legibility. Named after the legibility researcher Gerrit Willem Ovink, in its early stages was subjected to experimental legibilty investigations of distance and time threshold methods. The results of this heavily influence the design. The high regularity of the letters also makes the typeface suitable for running text and the wide span of weights motivates a broad usage for the setting of both display and text. More…
Ovink is also loosely inspired by Knud V. Engelhardt’s work for the street signage, designed around the years 1926-27 for Gentofte in Denmark. Being rooted in the Danish typography tradition, Ovink has a sturdy unpretentious look to it, yet compared to its predecessor the curves are tighter, and characters have a higher level of differentiation. Details include 9 weights with matching italics.
Ovink Font families
The Ovink includes the following font families:
- Ovink Thin
- Ovink Thin Italic
- Ovink Ultra Light
- Ovink Ultra Light Italic
- Ovink Light
- Ovink Light Italic
- Ovink
- Ovink Regular Italic
- Ovink Medium
- Ovink Medium Italic
- Ovink Semi Bold
- Ovink Semi Bold Italic
- Ovink Bold
- Ovink Bold Italic
- Ovink Black
- Ovink Black Italic
- Ovink Ultra Black
- Ovink Ultra Black Italic
Ovink Preview
Here is a preview of how Ovink will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
