Based on a fifteenth century Textura Blackletter typeface, Octoberfest has an historically accurate companion with Lombardic style capitals, Octoberfest Alternate. Both feature a Germanic cross icon as the asterisk character.

The OpenType versions of Octoberfest and Lombardic Octoberfest Alternate have 26 ligature features that automatically substitute a subtly unique pair of distressed characters when any lower case character is keyed twice in a row.