Regular

October Variable

Latin

In its most general sense, the term ‘world’ refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a ‘plurality of worlds’. Some treat the world as one simple object while others analyze the world as a complex made up of many parts. In scientific cosmology the world or universe is commonly defined as ’the totality of all space and time; all that is, has been, and will be’. Theories of modality, on the other hand, talk of possible worlds as complete and consistent ways how things could have been. Phenomenology, starting from the horizon of co-given objects present in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon or the ‘horizon of all horizons’. In philosophy of mind, the world is commonly contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. Theology conceptualizes the world in relation to God, for example, as God’s creation, as identical to God or as the two being interdependent. In religions, there is often a tendency to downgrade the material or sensory world in favor of a spiritual world to be sought through religious practice. A comprehensive representation of the world and our place in it, as is commonly found in religions, is known as a worldview. Cosmogony is the field that studies the origin or creation of the world while eschatology refers to the science or doctrine of the last things or of the end of the world.

October is a typeface family with fully rounded corner terminals and approachable character, suitable for complex signage and information display, as well as branding projects. October is a highly functional typeface for complex information display, and has distinct and unambiguous lettershapes that aid legibility and a soft and friendly character that makes the presented information appealing and emotionally accessible to a wide public.

October, Design Concept

Design Concept

October is part of Typotheque’s <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/global">Global Font collection</a> supporting hundreds of languages and various writing scripts. In the long term, it is intended that October will support all living languages with a community of active speakers. Currently, October supports the following writing scripts: Arabic, Armenian, Bangla, Canadian Syllabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Odia, Ol Chiki, Tamil, Telugu, and Thai. We are working on extending the language to other writing scripts, including Chinese. This makes October an unprecedented design project.

October, Global font

A Truly Global Font

October is available in three logical widths, which offer a complete typographic palette for the most demanding designers. The condensed and compressed versions solve the problem of setting long words and sentences next to short words set in the regular width version of October. A variable font version allows you to choose any width in between.

October font family, three widths

Three Widths

October also supports the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), featuring a comprehensive repertoire of glyphs for the transcription of linguistic data. The font also covers First Nations roman orthographies of Indigenous languages spoken in Canada (Wakashan, Algonquian, Salishan, Tsimshianic, Iroquoian, and Eskaleut languages) and, additionally, it covers African Indigenous roman orthographies for languages such as Hausa, Igbo, Akan, Kabiye, Ewe, etc. The IPA support is embedded inside the Latin fonts and every other language version, so you don’t need a separate licence for it.

October font, International Phonetic Alphabet

Phonetic script

October is ideally suited to information signage and wayfinding projects, and includes a collection of transportation and travel-related signs, symbols, icons, and various sets of arrows. We are continuing to work on expanding this collection of icons for other uses.

October font family, Symbols & Arrows

Symbols &amp; Arrows

October typeface can be personalised with alternative forms of letters available as Stylistic Sets, controllable via OpenType layout feature settings in your applications, or you can build a custom version of the fonts by using these stylistic alternates in a default position.

October font family, Stylistic Alternates

Stylistic Alternates

Each weight of October includes nine different kinds of numerals. Proportional lining figures come as default figures in October. It also, however, includes old-style figures, tabular numerals (both lining and old-style), small caps numerals, superior, inferior, circled and circled inverted numerals. For running text, old-style figures work best; for use in capital setting, use lining figures, and with the small caps, choose the specially designed Small Caps numerals applicable via OpenType layout features. When you take a licence for this font, you can choose your own default numeral variant.

October, Numeral Styles

Numeral Styles

The November Type system consists of ten font families, each available in nine weights, and countless language versions. It all started with <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/november">November</a>, a rational, utilitarian typeface inspired by street signs, and it continued with <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/october">October</a>, a soft and rounded typeface, each available in three logical widths. <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/november_slab">November Slab</a> is a robust slab serif version that works well in headlines and shorter text, and finally there is <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/november_stencil/">November Stencil</a>, useful for large text and display, and providing opportunities to work with chromatic typography.

November Type System

Black

Arabic

Arabic transliteration

Mazanderani

Persian (Farsi)

Bangla

Assamese

Bengali

Bishnupriya

Manipuri

Rangpuri

Cyrillic

Abaza

Abkhaz

Adyghe

Altai

Avar

Azeri (Cyrillic)

Azeri (Latin)

Balkar

Bashkir

Belarusian

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Buryat

Chechen

Chuvash

Crimean Tatar

Dargin

Dungan

Evenki

Gagauz

Ingush

Kabardian

Kalmyk

Karakalpak

Kazakh

Khakas

Kirghyz

Komi

Koryak

Kumyk

Lezgian

Macedonian

Manci

Mansi

Mari

Mongolian

Montenegrin

Mordvin (Erzya)

Mordvin (Moksha)

Muslim Tat, Latin

Nanai

Nenets

Nogai

Ossetic

Romanian

Russian

Rusyn 

Selkup

Serbian

Shor

Tabasaran

Tajik (Cyrillic)

Talysh, Latin

Tatar

Tsakhur

Turkmen

Tuva

Tuvan

Udmurt

Uighur

Ukrainian

Uzbek

Western Mari

Yakut

Devanagari

Awadhi

Bhojpuri

Bodo

Dogri

Dotyali

Eastern Tamang

Goan Konkani

Hindi

Kangri

Konkani

Magahi

Maithili

Marathi

Nepali

Sindhi

Georgian

Greek

Greek (modern)

Gujarati

Gurmukhi

Gurmukhi (Punjabi)

Hebrew

Judeo-Persian

Ladino

Yiddish

Kannada

Abua

Achinese

Achuar-Shiwiar

Acoli

Adara

Afar

Afrikaans

Ahtna

Alago

Albanian

Alekano

Aleut

Anaang

Ao Naga

Arabic, Chadian Spoken

Aragonese

Aromanian

Asturian

Awak

Aymara

Baka

Balinese

Banda, West Central

Bangwinji

Bapuku

Basa

Basque

Batak Toba

Bedawiyet

Bekwarra

Bemba

Bena

Bench

Benga

Bete-Bendi

Bikol

Bilen

Bini

Bislama

Blackfoot

Bokobaru

Breton

Buginese

C’Lela

Cahungwarya

Catalan

Cebuano

Central Yupik

Chamorro

Cheyenne

Chichewa

Chiduruma

Chiga

Chimborazo Highland Quichua

Chokwe

Chuukese

Colognian

Comorian, Latin

Cornish

Corsican

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dawro

Delaware

Dikaka

Dogon, Toro So

Dutch

Ebira

Efik

Emai-Iuleha-Ora

October is a warm, geometric typeface with soft corner terminals. At its core, it is a rational, utilitarian font family, but its rounded stroke endings lend it a friendlier character, useful for signage, branding, headlines and even editorial purposes.

October

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