Nova Oval

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Nova Oval Regular

About Nova Oval

Nova Oval is a display typeface drawn with a line of constant thickness and oval curves. In the specimen the capital A is an arch with a crossbar, N is a single arch, M and W are double arches, and V is rounded at the bottom like U. Stems end in diagonal cuts, and the lowercase keeps the same oval rhythm. The family history is given by its designer: an alphabet of capitals and digits made for cutting inscriptions in stone was digitised in 2010 and given a lowercase, and the alternative letter shapes produced along the way became six related fonts named after their shapes, with a monospaced seventh added later. Nova Oval is the oval variant. It has one Regular style, is not a variable font, and holds 421 glyphs in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Nova Oval works

Science fiction and game titles

Arch-shaped capitals and a constant line read as engineered lettering on a title screen.

Wordmarks

Unusual forms for A, N, M and V give a short name a distinct outline in a single weight.

Interface headings in themed apps

The even monoline stroke stays crisp as a section label above plainer body text.

Engraved or cut lettering

The design descends from an alphabet made for stone inscriptions, and its simple strokes suit engraving and vinyl cutting.

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 Nova Oval

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 Nova Oval 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: "Nova Oval";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/NovaOval-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Nova Oval 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=Nova+Oval&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

U and V look alike

Both letters have rounded bottoms in capital and lowercase. Words that depend on telling them apart need a check.

One of several Nova fonts

Nova Flat, Nova Round, Nova Slim, Nova Square and Nova Mono share the same origin with differently shaped letters.

Regular only

There is no bold or italic in Nova Oval.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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