Typeface Design for the Oceanic Collection

From Piranha to Oceanic: a collection named after its own teeth

A five-family collection by Interval Type comprising three serifs and two grotesques, originally developed as text and display serifs before expanding to include a monospaced serif and two sans serifs. The serif families draw from 18th–19th century fat faces; Oceanic Gothic references early grotesques of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Oceanic Grotesk takes a mid-20th century modernist direction. All families share identical vertical metrics to enable mixed-family layouts. The collection's working name was Piranha, prompted by the predatory character of letterforms such as the lowercase c and e.

Set in Oceanic, Oceanic Gothic, Oceanic Grotesk, Oceanic Grotesk Compact, Oceanic Grotesk Condensed, Oceanic Text, Oceanic Text Mono