Opmet Serif is the typeface of Opmet Osserpse, and it started from my handwriting. It is a classic serif built from a few pen strokes, with squat, wide letters and round ball terminals. Its stress tilts the other way, toward 1 and 7 o’clock, so every bowl has a wink. The family has 36 static styles and two variable fonts, with weight and optical size axes, and covers 270 languages written in the Latin alphabet.
Opmet Serif
Type design
- Client
- Opmet Osserpse
- Year
- 2026
- Work
- Typeface, 36 styles and two variable fonts
The wink
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
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.
Weights and italics
Features in use
Small caps
The first song of the season was written before the coffee was ready.
Capitals to small caps
Opmet Osserpse, Venice, California
Oldstyle figures
The tide bottomed out at 6:40 a.m. on June 21, 2025.
Lining figures
1234567890 and $18.50
Fractions
1/2 cup, 3/4 cup and 7/8 of an inch
Superiors and inferiors
22nd edition, a footnote1 and H2O
Slashed zero
2026, 0800 and 100
Case-sensitive forms
(opmet) (OPMET) {OSSERPSE} [2026]
Ligatures
The officer filed a final affidavit
Accents, 270 languages
Ærøskøbing, Zürich, Łódź, İstanbul, façade and IJsselmeer
The whole font
In use
What’s in it
Opmet Serif 1.004. Design: Opmet Osserpse, Venice, California.