“Oaks is a display typeface with a friendly attitude and distinctive character. Originally developed during a school project at Type@Cooper West, it has evolved to include additional widths, accented glyphs, and refined letterforms. The design draws from sign painting traditions of the late 1800s, with particular influence from showcard lettering masters like Ross F. George and E. C. Matthews. The characteristic stem flares and overall aesthetic are tailored for vintage wall signs—the kind you’d find painted on the side of an old brick building. Oaks was born from a desire to create a design toolkit that would feel at home on the small “country grocery stores I grew up visiting in Sonoma County, California.”
Overlap Type is an experimental type foundry led by Kel Troughton. We work with new as well as established designers to release typefaces with new ideas. Overlap launched in 2023 with an unusual rule: release projects with letterforms that overlap. What started as a constraint became a platform for pushing the boundaries of display type. Over time we’ve grown beyond strictly overlapping forms, but we are still focused on breaking conventional rules in type design.
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Design Projects
Create images or vector artwork, including logos
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PDFs
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
Fonts in the Adobe Fonts library include support for many different languages, OpenType features, and typographic styles.