Bona Nova SC

Try Bona Nova SC

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Bona Nova SC Regular Italic
• Bold 700Bona Nova SC Bold

About Bona Nova SC

Bona Nova SC is a serif typeface with a calligrapher's hand behind it. Bona Nova digitises Bona, a cursive design drawn in 1971 by Andrzej Heidrich, who also designed Polish banknotes. The revival widened the character set and added small caps, alternates and OpenType functions, and a new Regular and Bold were drawn together with Heidrich so that the cursive gained upright companions. The specimen shows light strokes that flare at their ends, slanted stress, a long sweeping tail on Q, a slender extended leg on R and old-style numerals that rise and fall like lowercase letters. The SC family is the cut named for small-capital setting. The fonts hold 2,220 glyphs spanning Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Vietnamese, in Regular, Italic and Bold. Mateusz Machalski is named as designer in the fonts and Capitalics as manufacturer.

Where Bona Nova SC works

Book titles and chapter openings

Flared strokes and the sweeping Q give titling lines a drawn, calligraphic character.

Running heads and credit lines

A small-caps cut is the conventional choice for running heads, bylines and abbreviations beside text type.

Titling across scripts

Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew sets sit in the same fonts as the Latin, so a multilingual title page keeps the same look.

Certificates and invitations

Regular, Italic and Bold give three levels for names, descriptions and dates.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: arabic, cyrillic, greek, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Bona Nova SC

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Bona Nova SC on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Bona Nova SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BonaNovaSC-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Bona Nova SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BonaNovaSC-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Bona Nova SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BonaNovaSC-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Bona Nova SC", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Bona Nova SC with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bona+Nova+SC:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Lowercase keys give small capitals

Typing lowercase in Bona Nova SC produces small capitals. The files keep ordinary lowercase letters and swap them for small capitals through an OpenType feature that browsers and layout applications apply by default; software that ignores OpenType features shows the plain lowercase.

No bold italic

Bona Nova SC has Regular, Italic and Bold only.

Old-style numerals

The numerals in the specimen are old-style figures with ascending and descending shapes, not lining figures.

FAQs

Collections with Bona Nova SC

• Fonts with small capitals

  Families issued as small-caps cuts, where the lowercase keys give capitals at x-height: for acronyms, headings, credits and refined body text.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All serif fonts