Octave Sans


About

Octave Sans is the sans-serif counterpart to Octave, bringing the rhythm and personality established in Octave into a sans-serif typeface. Designed alongside the serif, Octave Sans shares Octave’s proportions, weights, and distinctive details. Its balanced curves and carefully calibrated weights make it highly legible at any size, while subtle gestures inherited from Octave give it a personality all its own. The two families are designed to work seamlessly together, from quiet text settings to expressive typographic compositions.

Octave is a revival of an elzevir-style typeface originally designed by Théophile Beaudoire. French Elzevir types, also known as French Old Style types, started in 1846 with Louis Perrin’s cut of the Lyons capitals, a roman titling font. A few years later in 1858, Théophile Beaudoire, sous-directeur of the Fonderie Générale in Paris, transformed the idea of the Lyons capitals into a complete Oldstyle typeface (his Elzévir, named after the Dutch Renaissance printers Elsevier) to enormous success. Elzevirs, or French Oldstyle typefaces were subsquently widely reproduced by type foundries all over the world.

Our revival is based on a cut of Beaudoire’s Elzevir used in a book titled, Histoire de La Musique en Russie by Albert Soubies 1898, and remains fairly faithful to the source material with optical adjustments and improvements made during the digital drawing process. The sans-serif intrepretation carries forth some of the design details put forward in the serif, like heavy bowls in the capitals, but treated through a more geometric lens.

Octave was born from a book about music (hence the name), and features several musical emojis and symbols as an homage to the source material and also to Théophile Beaudoire, who was not only a typographer working in with the latin alphabet but who also engraved punches for musical typography. After spending more time with these letterforms, we also added a series of small caps, and small display caps that are accesible via an OpenType feature that allow for interesting and expressive ligatures and rhythmic typographic compositions that feel like little pieces of typographical music.


Styles

Hairline
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Light
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Regular
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Medium
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Black
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  • Octave Sans Variable
  • Weight 400
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Variable fonts are a modern type of font file that contain more than one style of a font. For example, Sprig Variable has a weight axis and contains all weights of the font ranging from hairline to super. So instead of having 8 files, a variable font allows you to have just one. In addition to reducing files and file size (which is great for the web ♥) variable fonts provide tons of amazing animation opportunities, and allow you to get super precise. In Sprig Variable you’re not limited to the weights we define, if you need something heavier than regular but lighter than medium, a variable font allows you to get it just right for your project.

Octave Sans Hairline
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Octave Sans Thin
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Octave Sans Light
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Octave Sans Regular
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Octave Sans Medium
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Octave Sans Bold
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Octave Sans Black
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Octave Sans Hairline Italic
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Octave Sans Thin Italic
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Octave Sans Light Italic
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Octave Sans Regular Italic
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Octave Sans Medium Italic
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Octave Sans Bold Italic
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Octave Sans Black Italic
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Octave Sans Medium
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Arrête de flipper, si tu veux va danser, la seule règle sur la piste c’est fais pas des trucs que t’as jamais tentés

Octave Sans Medium
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As a songwriter, Parton was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “9 to 5” and “Travelin’ Thru” (2005) from the film Transamerica. Travelin’ Thru won Best Original Song at the 2005 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards. It was also nominated for both the 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the 2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award (also known as the Critics’ Choice Awards) for Best Song. A cover of “Love Is Like A Butterfly” by Clare Torry was used as the theme music for the British TV show Butterflies. Parton collaborated with her youngest sister Rachel on the cookbook Good Lookin’ Cookin’, which featured Parton family recipes and was released in 2024.

Octave Sans Regular Italic
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Bad Bunny es primordialmente un artista de reguetón y trap latino. Como se describe en un artículo de la Rolling Stone, Bad Bunny rapea y canta con un “tono conversacional”, empleando “un tono bajo y compuesto, con melodías pegajosas y una cadencia de rapero”. En una entrevista con Billboard, Bad Bunny declaró que sus mayores inspiraciones musicales mientras crecía fueron Héctor Lavoe, Vico C, Daddy Yankee y Marc Anthony. De niño, solía escuchar frecuentemente salsa y merengue a través de su padre y baladas pop por parte de su madre. Cuando descubrió la música en inglés, se vio influenciado por el trap y el hip-hop. Durante su adolescencia, pasó por “temporadas musicales” en las que escuchaba casi exclusivamente un determinado tipo de música; él reflexiona que “hubo temporada de bachata, temporada de indie-pop, incluso temporada de Bee Gees”. Daddy Yankee es una gran influencia para Bad Bunny, pero Lavoe es su mayor inspiración y se describe como “una hebra fundamental del ADN musical de Bad Bunny”; Luego dijo que, cuando crecía, entretenía a los vecinos desde su balcón interpretando canciones de Lavoe. Aunque es principalmente un artista de trap y reguetón, sus canciones también incluyen influencias del soul, el pop y el R&B. Abordó su experimentación musical afirmando: “Si mañana quiero sacar un disco de rock o uno de bachata, nadie me puede decir nada, ¿por qué yo no? Hay que intentar unir públicos, unir países, unir gustos musicales, unir a la gente”. También experimentó con el “garage-pop punk” en la canción “Tenemos que hablar” de su álbum X 100pre. En AllMusic, Thom Jurek comentó que el álbum “expandió los límites del trap latino hasta los márgenes del pop”. Varias publicaciones le han atribuido el mérito de haber introducido el trap latino en el mercado de la música en inglés. Según Timothy Monger de AllMusic, sus letras “van desde el humor y el patetismo hasta el desamor y la ira (a veces en la misma canción)”. Al hablar del álbum de colaboración de Oasis entre Bad Bunny y J Balvin, Joe Coscarelli señaló que los dos artistas “crean letras con referencias geográficas específicas y alusiones culturales, sin mostrar concesiones por las audiencias blancas estadounidenses a las que, sin embargo, les gusta su música”. Según Paper, otros temas explorados en la música de Bad Bunny incluyen “el amor propio, la inclusión y la aceptación LGBT”. Sus canciones “Yo perreo sola” y “Bellacoso” (con Residente) denuncian el acoso sexual, esta última inspirada en el movimiento feminista de Puerto Rico, especialmente en las protestas contra el gobernador Ricardo Rosselló.

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BENITO ANTONIO MARTÍNEZ OCASIO

Octave Sans Black Italic
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Hold me closer, tiny dancer Count the headlights on the highway Lay me down in sheets of linen You had a busy day today

Octave Sans Regular
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Moon Safari was met with general acclaim upon its release. Writing in Mixmag, Alexis Petridis called it a “superbly inventive” album that “creates a soundworld in your living room, a world where everything’s more shiny, chic and sophisticated than reality”. John Mulvey of NME praised Air’s “sensitive but tenacious grasp of melody, a laid-back disposition and a reckless way with a Vocoder that makes them unafraid of sounding like a digital ELO”, also noting similarities to Garbage on “Sexy Boy”. Entertainment Weekly’s Ethan Smith felt that though the album occasionally bears excessive resemblance to Everything but the Girl, “Air leaven it all with a welcome dash of Gallic irony.” Pitchfork writer Brent DiCrescenzo remarked that the music would befit “minimalist architecture design, shagging up against a tree in a field of sunflowers, waiting in line for ‘Space Mountain,’ drinking gin upstairs in a 747 (circa 1974), and ‘60s Swedish industrial documentaries”, adding that though the album is “too cheeky” for everyday listening, it is nonetheless romantic.

Octave Sans Black Italic
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MOON SAFARI 1998 ⏮ AIR

Octave Sans Thin
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CELiNE DION
LeANN RiMES

Glyphs

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Basic Latin

Extended Latin

Ligatures and Alternates

Ordinals and Modifiers

Small Caps

Mini Caps Bottom

Mini Caps Middle

Mini Caps Top

Punctuation

Case Sensitive Glyphs

Currency, Symbols, Math, Arrows

Numerals, Superior, Inferior, Fractions

Tabular Glyphs

Emojis


FAIRE Octave Sans Emojis

Octave


Octave Colophon


Design
Maxime Gau

Engineering
Sabrina Nacmias

Vietnamese Support
Rosie Mai

Supported Languages


Albanian
Asu
Basque
Bemba
Bena
Breton
Catalan
Chiga
Colognian
Cornish
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Faroese
Filipino
Finnish
French
Friulian
Galician
Ganda
German
Gusii
Hungarian
Inari Sami
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Jola-Fonyi
Kabuverdianu
Kalenjin
Kinyarwanda
Koyra ChiiniLatvian
Koyraboro Senni
Lithuanian
Lower Sorbian
Luo
Luxembourgish
Luyia
Machame
Makhuwa-Meetto
Makonde
Malagasy
Maltese
Manx
Marshallese
Moldavian
Morisyen
North Ndebele
Northern Sami
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Nyankole
Oromo
Polish
Portuguese
Quechua
Romanian
Romansh
Rombo
Rundi
Rwa
Samburu
Sango
Sangu
Scottish Gaelic
Sena
Serbian
Shambala
Shona
Slovak
Soga
Somali
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Swiss German
Taita
Tasawaq
Teso
Turkish
Upper Sorbian
Uzbek (Latin)
Vietnamese
Volapük
Vunjo
Walser
Welsh
Western Frisian
Zarma
Zulu