ABC Otto
Dinamo Typefaces · Sam de Groot and Laura Opsomer Mironov
A cheerful Baroque-leaning text serif that started as a Miklos Kis remix and grew into its own design, with bubbly understated italics across four weights.
About
A text serif by Amsterdam-based Sam de Groot and Laura Opsomer Mironov that began life as an irreverent remix of the 17th-century type of Miklos Kis before drifting into its own identity. Otto carries a sturdy, wide rhythm and lilting italics, with a much larger x-height than Kis, round evenness rather than jaggedness, and occasionally top-heavy proportions. It runs across four weights from Light to Bold with matching italics, where the uprights still nod to Kis but the italics abandon Baroque flowery tropes for an open-faced, bashful simplicity. Suited to long-form editorial and book work that wants warmth without strict historical accuracy.
Classification
Dinamo describe Otto as a cheerful text typeface that began as an irreverent remix of the 17th-century type of Miklos Kis, gradually metamorphosising into something of its own; framed as freewheeling fan fiction of the Baroque serif genre known as 'le gout hollandois' (the Dutch taste).