Ibarra Real Nova

Try Ibarra Real Nova

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Ibarra Real Nova Regular Italic
• Medium 500Ibarra Real Nova Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Ibarra Real Nova SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Ibarra Real Nova Bold Bold Italic

Ibarra Real Nova is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Ibarra Real Nova

Ibarra Real Nova is a serif typeface rooted in Spanish printing of the 18th century. It grew out of a project that the Calcografía Nacional of Spain set up in 2007, with José María Ribagorda as director, to make the typographic heritage of the Imprenta Real better known. Part of that work was recovering the types Geronimo Gil designed for the Quixote that Joaquín Ibarra printed for the Real Academia in 1780. Octavio Pardo joined as collaborator in 2015. The specimen shows a book face with marked contrast, fine bracketed serifs, wide round capitals, a modest lowercase with ball terminals on a, c, f and r, an ampersand in which the letters e and t are still visible, and a curled question mark. Upright and italic variable files cover weights 400 to 700 in four named steps, eight styles in total, with 518 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended.

Where Ibarra Real Nova works

Literary and classic editions

The letterforms come from an 18th-century book type, and the roman with its italic covers text, titles and emphasis.

Spanish-language publishing

The design revives Spanish royal printing types and includes the accented letters Spanish needs.

Essays and long features

Regular and Medium give two text colours, with SemiBold and Bold for subheads.

Title pages and invitations

Wide capitals with fine serifs and the e-t ampersand give display lines a period character.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Ibarra Real Nova

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 Ibarra Real Nova 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: "Ibarra Real Nova";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/IbarraRealNova-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Ibarra Real Nova";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/IbarraRealNova-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Ibarra Real Nova", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Ibarra Real Nova 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=Ibarra+Real+Nova:ital,wght@0,400..700;1,400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Weights from Regular to Bold

The weight axis runs from 400 to 700. There is no light weight.

Ornaments are not included

According to the official notes, the ornaments made for the project are left out until their authors allow distribution under an open license.

Two variable files

The package holds an upright and an italic variable font; static instances come from the official source.

FAQs

Collections with Ibarra Real Nova

• Old-style and revival serif fonts for books

  Digital revivals of Renaissance, baroque and later book types, and new designs in the old-style tradition, most with italics, for novels, essays and fine printing.

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