Reverse-engineering the Omega cursive script
I complain about bad typography a lot - it is my biggest watch pet peeve and almost every company has produced a few terrible offenders in its time. But I have no complaints at all about Omega's industrial cursive script. It's so readable and effortless... until you try doing it yourself.
After a few hours of toil, my respect for the original designers has gone way up.
However, I think I've finally cracked the code and I look forward to using this elegant mid-century style to spell out any novel or puerile word I want 😈
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sagebrush
child of the 90s... collector on a budget... happily married and loving the socially acceptable way for men to talk about their jewelry habit
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6.50” / 16.51 cm
That's a true labour of love! I also like the pad-printed capital letters of the Omega name on vintage dials where you can zoom in and see the tiny serifs.
You may appreciate this account, which reverse-engineers typefaces found in urban environments: https://www.instagram.com/lettersofsanfrancisco/
Font nerdery makes me all swoony-like. If I hadn't already been following you, I'd sure as heck start now!
Nice work digging into this! The Omega geometric script has always caught my eye. I love how they use it across collections. Interesting to see variations: Constellation has more circular/square shapes compared to Seamaster