Sorry for the oversized picture. Here's a smaller version, and some more demo material.

Indeed - a superb launch!

hhp

Thanks guys, much appreciated. :)

Do you have any suggestions on how to further promote the font? I'm new to the business, as you know...

EDIT: Just saw your reply, Dave. Interesting suggestion! I'm not on Twitter myself (it's really not my kind of thing) — but perhaps I should open a Twitter account for my foundry? I need to do some research... Oh, and it sounds like those MyFonts tweets might be interesting to follow...

Alright, @CatharsisFonts is on Twitter... I'm on facebook already, but I don't know that many people. ;o)

Asking MyFonts to retweet me: That sounds great... should I send them an e-mail about it...?

Do they mean that it's sort of based on Garamond?
They're probably just jealous.

hhp

Octant is only "based on Garamond" inasmuch as all humanist serif fonts are based on Garamond.

@ Jürgen: Thanks! As a Swiss native, I used to make fun of the ß, and of course never used it. Only since I design type have I learned to love it (in particular the capital one!). I'm probably the only Swiss person who uses it now. ;o)

Why did you start with an old style (garalde), rather than a modern (didone)?

That’s good enough for me!

Christian,
Octant is *fantastic*!!
:CONGRATULATIONS:

Thanks for the kind words!

@ Thomas: I'd love to see Octant on the cover of a book or game at some point! But steampunk is an awfully narrow genre; I'm wondering whether I dug myself into a hole by marketing Octant as such... For instance, I could well see it on the cover of a crime/thriller/suspense novel, a bit like FF Disturbance was used for Schätzing's Der Schwarm.

Think there's a way one could increase the exposure of people in the print industry to the existence of Octant...?

By the way, my admin page says:
Starlets Rank: 51
HotNewFonts Rank: 68
Am I correct in assuming that once the HotNewFonts Rank drops below 50, it'll appear on the Hot New Fonts webpage and periodically show up as a flag on the MyFonts homepage?

I agree with Hrant. Being unique is good.

Awesome, thanks for the publicity. :)

In Octant, only the f_* ligatures, Q_u, and T_h are encoded in LIGA (standard ligatures), whereas the rest are in DLIG (discretionary ligatures). Typographically unsavvy applications such as PowerPoint typically have LIGA enabled but DLIG disabled, and no option to change that. In Octant Ligatures, all ligatures are encoded in LIGA, so they will work in PowerPoint. You can switch them on and off by switching between the two font versions.

"encoded in LIGA"

In one way of looking at it, this is a perfectly logical phrase. But it is easily confused with "encoded" as in "having a codepoint assigned to the glyph." So for clarity I think one might want to use a different verb there, or just leave out that word entirely.

In any case, thanks for clarifying, as I was wondering the exact same thing. :)

Hmm. Well, I'll appreciate it buy going into work tomorrow and buying it. Don't currently have a use, but if it's ever even in consideration, it'll quickly move to *perfect.* Just that kind of font; they're pretty rare.

EDIT:

Done.

About your marketing blurb, “While Octant shines in display roles, it also performs well in short texts such as poetry or block quotes.” — I don’t think you should be embarrassed that it (only) shines in display. That’s more than good enough :)

Anyway: Congratulations!