# Nova Flat font

> A monoline display face with slanted stroke cuts, one of seven Nova fonts that grew from letters made for stone inscriptions.

Nova Flat is a display typeface by Wojciech Kalinowski, one of the seven Nova fonts that developed from an alphabet first drawn for inscriptions on stone. Nova Flat has one Regular style with 421 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. Nova Flat is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is used for titles, logos and short labels.

## Facts

- Classification: [Display](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/display)
- Designed by: Wojciech Kalinowski
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 421
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-05
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nova+Flat
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/nova-flat
- Tagged for: Headlines, Posters, Geometric, Tech

## About Nova Flat

Nova Flat is a display typeface from the Nova group, which its designer traces back to NovaCut, an alphabet of capitals and digits he made for stone inscriptions. He digitised it in 2010, added lowercase, and turned alternative letter shapes into six related fonts, Cut, Flat, Oval, Round, Slim and Square, followed by a monospaced seventh. In the specimen Nova Flat has strokes of one thickness, bowls shaped like rounded rectangles and stem ends sliced at an angle instead of square. The capital N and M are arches without diagonals, A has a rounded top, and W is built from the same curve turned over. The family is one Regular style. Its 421 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended sets. Wojciech Kalinowski is credited as designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2011, wmk69 (wmk69@o2.pl), with Reserved Font Name NovaFlat.

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it works

- **Game and sci-fi titles**: Arched N and M and rounded-rectangle bowls give a title a constructed, engineered look.
- **Logotypes**: Angled stroke cuts are a recognisable detail in a short wordmark set at large size.
- **Product and device labels**: Single-thickness strokes reproduce cleanly when engraved, cut or printed in one colour.
- **Section headings in several languages**: Latin Extended coverage includes Polish, Czech, Turkish and Hungarian letters for the same headings.

## Things to know

- **One style**: Nova Flat has a single Regular style. The other Nova fonts are separate families with different letter shapes, not weights of this one.
- **Unusual capitals**: N and M are drawn as arches, so they resemble enlarged lowercase letters; check words such as names in capitals before committing.
- **Latin scripts only**: The character sets are Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

## FAQs

### Is Nova Flat free for commercial use?

Yes. Nova Flat is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license and may not use the reserved name NovaFlat without permission.

### Who designed Nova Flat?

Nova Flat is credited to Wojciech Kalinowski. The copyright notice in the font uses the handle wmk69.

### How is Nova Flat related to the other Nova fonts?

Nova Flat is one of seven Nova fonts by the same designer. Six differ in the shape of individual letters, and the seventh, Nova Mono, is monospaced.

### How many weights does Nova Flat have?

Nova Flat has one weight, Regular 400, and no italic.

### Which languages does Nova Flat support?

Nova Flat includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Polish, German, French, Turkish, Czech and Hungarian. It has no Cyrillic or Greek.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/nova-flat (trendhub)
