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Oban

Oban™

by Alias
Licenses from $100.00
Complete family of 8 fonts: $250.00
Oban Font Family was designed by published by Alias. Oban contains 22 styles and family package options.

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Oban Complete Package

8 fonts

Best Value!

  • Oban Round Oban Round

  • Oban Triangle Oban Triangle

  • Oban Round Back Italic Oban Round Back Italic

  • Oban Triangle Back Italic Oban Triangle Back Italic

  • Oban Round Outline Oban Round Outline

  • Oban Triangle Outline Oban Triangle Outline

  • Oban Round Outline Back Italic Oban Round Outline Back Italic

  • Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic

Per style:

$31.25

Pack of 8 styles:

$250.00

  • Oban Triangle Oban Triangle

  • Oban Triangle Back Italic Oban Triangle Back Italic

  • Oban Triangle Outline Oban Triangle Outline

  • Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic

Per style:

$42.50

Pack of 4 styles:

$170.00

  • Oban Round Oban Round

  • Oban Round Back Italic Oban Round Back Italic

  • Oban Round Outline Oban Round Outline

  • Oban Round Outline Back Italic Oban Round Outline Back Italic

Per style:

$42.50

Pack of 4 styles:

$170.00

  • Oban Triangle Oban Triangle

  • Oban Triangle Back Italic Oban Triangle Back Italic

Per style:

$50.00

Pack of 2 styles:

$100.00

  • Oban Triangle Outline Oban Triangle Outline

  • Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic Oban Triangle Outline Back Italic

Per style:

$50.00

Pack of 2 styles:

$100.00

  • Oban Round Outline Oban Round Outline

  • Oban Round Outline Back Italic Oban Round Outline Back Italic

Per style:

$50.00

Pack of 2 styles:

$100.00

About Oban Font Family


Originally drawn as a rebranding proposal for a fashion house, Oban takes inspiration from Thorowgood types and from sample books of wood cut fonts from the late nineteenth century, with their spirited and expressive, heavyweight graphic, sometimes naively drawn forms. Oban has a modular geometry and its character shape has an extra sharpness, with the slight curve connecting vertical to horizontal and curve to straight line of the originals reduced to a sharp angle. It has two versions, with ball terminals or triangular serifs, each with a backwards italics and outline. The backwards italic suggests the kind of self-consciously quirky idea a nineteenth century type founder might have had.

Designers:

Publisher: Alias

Foundry: Alias

Design Owner: Alias

MyFonts debut: Jun 22, 2012

Oban™

About Alias

Alias was formed in 1996 by Gareth Hague and David James initially to develop into typefaces the bespoke lettering designs produced for their record cover and book projects. As well as typeface design, Alias has produced logotype designs for clients including Ghost, L.K.Bennett, MCQ, Jennifer Lopez for Kohl's, Lane Crawford, Calvin Klein Beauty fragrance and Prada Candy fragrance. For Prada Candy this included the development of the Prada logo into a full typeface. Typeface designs include headline typefaces for the 2012 Olympic Games and Sunday Times Magazine, and typeface and layout design for Another and Another Man magazines. Alias also works with design agencies and advertising agencies on typefaces for corporate clients and advertising campaigns. Graphic design includes music and arts related projects and book design for clients including Phaidon, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Tate Modern. 

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