Inria Sans Sans Serif
Nosifer is a display face for headings; Inria Sans is a sans serif family with 3 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Nosifer
A wide, all-capitals horror display face whose letters drip from the baseline.
Nosifer is a horror-themed display typeface credited to Typomondo, with wide, heavy capital letters that drip downward as if wet. Nosifer has one style with 336 glyphs, shows capitals in both upper and lower case, and is not a variable font. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits Halloween titles, posters and game graphics.
- Designer
- Typomondo
- Classification
- Display
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 1 1 weight
- Variable font
- No
- Glyphs
- 336
- Languages checked
- 21 see the list
- Last updated
- version 001.002
- Used for
- HeadlinesPostersSocial media
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Nosifer
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Nosifer; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Regular 400Nosifer Regular
About Nosifer
Nosifer is a display typeface built around one effect: every letter drips. The specimen shows very wide, heavy capitals with small flared spikes at the corners, and from the underside of each letter hang drops of different lengths, like paint or blood running down a wall. The lowercase positions hold capitals as well, with a different arrangement of drips, so there are no true lowercase letters. Numerals carry the same effect; the punctuation marks in the specimen are left plain. The family has one style, labelled Regular, with 336 glyphs covering Latin and part of Latin Extended, and it is not a variable font. The official notes offer no history, only a joke that nobody knows where the face comes from. It is credited to Typomondo and published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Where Nosifer works
- Halloween invitations and flyers
- Drips hanging from each letter set the theme before a word is read.
- Horror film and game titles
- Wide, heavy capitals fill a title card, and the corner spikes add menace.
- Video thumbnails and stream overlays
- One or two words in Nosifer stay recognisable at thumbnail size because the letter bodies are so heavy.
- Varying repeated letters
- Typing a letter in lower case gives the same capital with another drip pattern, which keeps doubled letters from looking identical.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 336 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
- Slovenian
- Lithuanian
- 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
SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright (c) 2011, Typomondo, with Reserved Font Name "Nosifer".
What the license allows
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.
Conditions
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.
This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.
Fonts that pair with Nosifer
Amiri Serif
Nosifer is a display face for headings; Amiri is a serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Montserrat Alternates Sans Serif
Nosifer is a display face for headings; Montserrat Alternates is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.
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 Nosifer 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.
CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: "Nosifer";
src: url("/assets/fonts/Nosifer-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Nosifer", sans-serif;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Nosifer with this markup:
HTML, Google Fonts
<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=Nosifer&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- Capitals only
- Upper and lower case both produce capital letters; they differ only in how the drips fall.
- Very wide letters
- The letters are broad in the specimen, so only short words fit on a line at display size.
- Drips extend below the baseline
- Leave extra line spacing, or the drops will run into the line beneath.
FAQs
Is Nosifer free for commercial use?
Yes. Nosifer is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so it can be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, and a modified version keeps the same license and may not use a Reserved Font Name without permission.
Who designed Nosifer?
Nosifer is credited to Typomondo, which is also the name in the copyright notice. The official notes give no further detail about its origin.
How many weights does Nosifer have?
Nosifer has one weight, labelled Regular 400, although the letters are very heavy. It is not a variable font.
Does Nosifer have lowercase letters?
No. In Nosifer the lowercase keys produce capital letters with a different drip pattern.
Which languages does Nosifer support?
Nosifer includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian.
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