Opmet Serif
- Client
- Opmet Osserpse
- Year
- 2026
- Work
- Typeface, 36 styles and two variable fonts
“It started by hand. I wanted Opmet Serif to feel like my real handwriting.”
Dalton, Opmet Osserpse founder
Traditional but simple strokesA classic serif a, built from a few pen strokes.
Squat, wide lettersEvery round and bowl drawn 12% wider than the first drawings.
Expressive, friendlyRound ball terminals instead of sharp cuts, and a wink in every bowl.
The wink
The O’s stress, from upright
Classic stress tilts the thin parts of a bowl to the left, toward 11 and 5 o’clock. Opmet Serif tilts them to the right, toward 1 and 7, on the O, the e, the p and every letter with a bowl. The studio’s name runs backward, and so, slightly, do its letters.
Drawn as strokes
The g, Text Regular
Each letter is built from a few pen strokes, each a line of points with a heading and a width, at three weights and two sizes. The outline comes last, and every weight between is its interpolation.
The whole font
abcdefg
hijklmnopqr
stuvwxyz
0123456789
ABCDEFGHI
JKLMNOPQR
STUVWXYZ
0123456789
abcdefg
hijklmnopqr
stuvwxyz
0123456789
ABCDEFGHI
JKLMNOPQR
STUVWXYZ
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Most of the season was spent waiting for the room to sound like the morning.
Display Regular
In use
What’s in it
36static styles, in OTF and in TTF hinted for Windows
2variable fonts, with weight and optical size axes
635glyphs in each, 438 of them characters
270languages written in the Latin alphabet
8local forms, from Dutch to Turkish
120layout tests passed in every font: small caps, figure sets, fractions, ligatures and marks
Opmet Serif 1.004. Design: Opmet Osserpse, Venice, California.