OSTBLOCK first was called ›Q3A‹. I drew the letters in 2004, inspired by pictures of East Berlin. From a bird’s eye view and with just a little imagination the structure and the shapes of the buildings, built in the late 60s, do look like letters. All these prefabricated slab-construction buildings (Plattenbauten) of former GDR had names like WBS70 or Q3A. The alphabet was drawn in Freehand, with 3 different layers, to make the letters look 3-dimensional. But it never made it into a font – until now.

Today, with OpenType technology, it is one font that containes 5 layers as Stylistic Sets and a wide range of accented characters and all kerned!

Learn more on how to use OSTBLOCK with this user guide.

 Purchase OSTBLOCK by e-mail or at Volcano Type or MyFonts

Simplified and customized version of the original type design for a client working in mobile games business.

Little Flash presentation of the font.