Script Ogdon 12 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, logos, packaging, posters, social media, confident, retro, energetic, friendly, sporty, expressive branding, handwritten feel, display impact, retro script, brushy, connected, slanted, rounded, swashy.
A slanted, brush-pen style script with connected strokes and rounded terminals. Letterforms are built from smooth, continuous curves with occasional looped joins and modest entry/exit swashes, creating a lively baseline rhythm. Strokes show gentle thick–thin modulation consistent with a pressure-driven tool, and counters tend to be compact, giving the text a dense, dark overall color. Capitals are larger and more expressive, with sweeping curves and occasional flourish-like hooks that stand out clearly in titles.
Best suited to short display settings where its connected strokes and heavy color can work as a focal point—such as headlines, logos/wordmarks, packaging callouts, posters, and social media graphics. It can also work for quotes or subheads when given enough size and breathing room to preserve the internal shapes.
The overall tone feels upbeat and confident, combining a casual handwritten immediacy with a polished, sign-painter energy. Its bold, flowing movement gives it a sporty, retro-leaning personality that reads as friendly and attention-grabbing rather than delicate or formal.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, brush-written script look that feels handcrafted while remaining clean and repeatable across an alphabet. Its expressive capitals and energetic connections suggest a focus on branding and promotional typography where motion and personality are prioritized.
Spacing in the samples appears tighter in lowercase due to strong connections and compact counters, so the face naturally forms cohesive word shapes. The numerals and uppercase follow the same brush-script logic, keeping the set visually consistent for display use.