Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Oscine

Square geometry, friendly corners

Oscine is a sans-serif type family developed at Dalton Maag between 2014 and 2021 by Bruno Maag, Deiverson Ribeiro, and Rafael Saraiva. It pairs an unconventional lowercase with more orthodox capitals, using square letterforms softened by rounded corners. The family spans four weights with italics and covers Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts across more than 850 languages.

Set in Oscine

Insights

The lowercase departs noticeably from the more conventional capitals, creating contrast within the family.
Rounded corners applied to square forms add friendliness, as stated in the product description.
OpenType features include tabular and proportional numerals, fractions, superscript, subscript, and case-sensitive forms.