UT Ogah — Experimental Display Typeface
UT Ogah is a bold display typeface built around contrast: sharp geometry meeting fluid, almost instinctive movement. It plays with broken structures, unexpected gaps, and soft terminals to create letterforms that feel raw yet controlled. The result is a typeface that feels energetic, expressive, and visually charged, ideal for designs that need presence without losing clarity.
UT Ogah works best when it leads. Headlines, branding, and statement-driven visuals benefit from its strong rhythm and unconventional anatomy, giving every composition a distinct voice with a modern edge.
Target Audience
- Graphic Designers & Art Directors: For posters, editorial spreads, and visual identities that need a strong focal point.
- Web & UI Designers: For landing pages and digital experiences that rely on character-driven typography.
- Creative Professionals: Working within themes of Japanese culture, urban narratives, retro-futurism, or experimental visuals.
Key Features
- Experimental Anatomy: Intentional breaks and open gaps in characters such as the lowercase g and uppercase R, creating a stencil-like yet fluid impression.
- Two Styles Included: Regular and Oblique, offering contrast between stability and motion.
- Large Glyph Set: 435+ glyphs supporting expressive layouts and complex typographic systems.
- Fluid Terminals: Curves and endings inspired by ink movement and wave-like motion.
- Robust Figure Sets: Old Style, Lining, Proportional, and Tabular figures for flexible typographic use.
Inspiration Behind the Design
UT Ogah draws from Japanese visual culture and urban postmodern aesthetics. The flowing forms reference traditional Ukiyo-e wave illustrations, while the bold structure echoes high-impact signage found across Tokyo’s dense cityscape. This combination brings together expressive heritage and contemporary digital typography, resulting in a font that feels instinctive, modern, and visually alive.
Usage Suggestions
- Apparel Graphics: Large chest prints, back designs, woven labels.
- Editorial Headlines: Magazine covers, section headers, pull quotes.
- Branding & Logos: Creative studios, tech startups, beverage and lifestyle packaging.
- Digital Content: Social media posts, thumbnails, digital ads.
- Event & Exhibition Design: Posters, wayfinding systems, installations.
Technical Details
- Font Formats: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
- Language Support: 200+ languages, Extended Latin A & B
- Total Glyphs: 435+
OpenType Features
- Standard Ligatures, Discretionary Ligatures
- Numerators, Denominators
- Superscripts, Subscripts, Scientific Inferiors
- Old Style Figures, Lining Figures, Proportional Figures, Tabular Figures
- Ordinals
- Stylistic Alternates, including single-storey a and g
Supported Languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek (Latin), Volapük, Vunjo, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Zulu.
