Nobile

Try Nobile

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Nobile Regular Italic
• Medium 500Nobile Medium Medium Italic
• Bold 700Nobile Bold Bold Italic

About Nobile

Nobile is a sans serif typeface designed for digital screens. Its lowercase is tall, counters are open, and strokes stay close to one thickness; the specimen also shows old-style figures, in which 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 drop below the baseline. According to the official notes, Vernon Adams wanted a face that stays legible from large display sizes down to small text on handheld devices without giving up the distinctive look of fonts made for print, and he links that aim to a William Morris maxim about usefulness and beauty. The family has six static styles: Regular, Medium and Bold, each with an italic. In the specimen, Medium is far closer to Bold than to Regular. The 477 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic, including the letters for Russian and Bulgarian.

Where Nobile works

Text on websites and in apps

A tall lowercase and open counters were chosen for legibility on screens, including small handheld ones.

Interface labels

Regular for labels and Medium for active or selected states give two clearly different levels.

Headings

Bold and the heavy Medium hold headings together above Regular text in the same family.

Latin and Cyrillic sites

Russian and Bulgarian share the fonts with Polish, Czech, Turkish and Western European languages.

Emphasis in running text

Each of the three weights has its own italic file.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Russian
• Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, 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 Nobile

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 Nobile 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: "Nobile";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Nobile-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Nobile";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Nobile-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Nobile";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Nobile-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Nobile";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Nobile-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Nobile", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Nobile 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=Nobile:ital,wght@0,400;0,500;0,700;1,400;1,500;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Medium is heavy

In the specimen the Medium weight looks nearly as dark as Bold. Test it before using it as a text weight.

Old-style figures

The numerals shown have descenders, so they do not align at one height in tables.

Static files

Nobile is not a variable font; its six styles are separate files.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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