Organon Sans and Serif families

Posted by Nick Cooke in

Release

29 Jul 2009 — 3:50am

I am (G-Type designer Nick Cooke) delighted to announce the release of two new OpenType families: Organon Sans and Organon Serif in six weights from Light to UltraBlack. These new characterful typefaces have been thoughtfully designed for excellent legibility when used in text sizes. Tapered stems give a distinctive robust quality which is also suitable for display. Using Organon Sans in conjunction with the accompanying serif family makes it ideal for any project requiring elegantly sophisticated typography over a range of applications.
An extensive character set has Language coverage for Western, CE, Turkish and Baltic.

Serif OpenType features include:
Proportional and Tabular numbers, Lining and Old-style numbers, Small Caps, Ligatures and Discretionary Ligatures, Swash small caps and Caps: Q and R, q and r.

Sans OpenType features include:
Proportional and Tabular numbers, Lining and Old-style numbers, Small Caps, Ligatures and Discretionary Ligatures,
3 style sets:
1-alternate infant ‘a’.
2-alternate double-decker ‘g’
3-alternate ‘y’

Initially available through Fontworks UK.

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Organon Sans & Serif sample.pdf	953.75 KB

Bert Vanderveen
29 Jul 2009 — 5:10am

How did you come up with this name, Nick? It’s a quite well-known brand from the Netherlands. First pharma company to market the anti-conception-pill.

. . .
Bert Vanderveen BNO

typerror
29 Jul 2009 — 5:11am

Great work! I believe that lower case p in the Sans is one of the prettiest I have seen in a long, long while.

Congratulations

Michael

paragraph
29 Jul 2009 — 5:59am

Very nice, needs to be seen large to be fully appreciated, though.

RahimSnow
30 Jul 2009 — 12:47am

Nick,

Congratulations! The pair look wonderful.

Question: are there no italics? Or did I miss something?

Rahim

Nick Cooke
30 Jul 2009 — 1:57am

Bert - The Organon is the name given by Aristotle’s followers, the Peripatetics to the standard collection of his six works on logic. A fair amount of logic coupled with creativity goes into the creation of a typeface. And of course those six works of logic by Aristotle are essential reading - they’re on my bedside table right now.

But really I got the name from the first line of “Cloudbusting” by Kate Bush. Though naming a typeface after a machine that makes rain is not such a good idea - that's the last thing we need here in the UK, we've had more than enough already (again).

Michael - Thanks a lot, and congratulations to you too for Peanut.

Jan, I'm glad you said that as it means the fonts look anonymous enough for text setting, but the subtleties of the designs reveal themselves when used for display.

Rahim - no italics yet, maybe after I've done converting some of my older stuff to OT.

BTW - I mentioned the Sans style sets but neglected to show them in the sample - here's an update:

Nick Cooke

satya
11 Aug 2009 — 5:16pm

Loved it, Nick. Congratulations!

Nick Shinn
13 Aug 2009 — 12:22pm

Orgonon was the name of William Reich's farm.
But it wasn't in Oregon and he didn't grow oregano.

Sindre
13 Aug 2009 — 12:35pm

The "Organon" of Kate Bush' lovely "Cloudbusting" is an admitted misspelling. Wilhelm Reich's Maine residence was named after his (probably) pseudo-scientific theory of orgones, a universal bioenergetic energy form present in the entire biosphere, named after the ****. I'm not sure about the oregano, though.

Delicious typefaces! Definitely on my wish list.

Sindre
13 Aug 2009 — 12:49pm

Hey, why the **** was the word o-r-g-a-s-m censored from my last post? Is the name of that medical term really considered dirty in any part of the world in 2009? I'm shocked.

eliason
13 Aug 2009 — 1:27pm