Odile is a text typeface with bracketed head and bracket-free bottom lowercase serifs, a quality that counters the rigidness most traditional slab serif typefaces possess. This contemporary design draws inspiration from Charter, an experimental typeface originally designed by the American book and type designer William Addison Dwiggins. Conceived as an italic companion to Dwiggins' Arcadia, Experimental No. 221, the Charter project progressed sporadically, stalled during the Second World War, and came to a halt in 1955. Charter remained incomplete and was never commercially released by W.A.D. When Sibylle Hagmann assessed Charter’s whimsical design, she rethought its fragments, developing it into a comprehensive text family.