Nova Round

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Nova Round Regular

About Nova Round

Nova Round is a display typeface drawn with a line of constant thickness, semicircular arcs and stems whose ends are sliced at an angle. It belongs to the Nova series, whose author explains that the first design, NovaCut, started as capitals and digits for inscriptions in stone and was later moved to the computer with a lowercase added; variant letter shapes made along the way became separate fonts named after their form, Round among them. In the specimen the capitals M and N are arches like tall lowercase letters, the W is a pair of joined cups and the Y is a cup on a stem. Spacing is open. There is one Regular style with 421 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended, and no variable axis. Wojciech Kalinowski is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with the Reserved Font Name NovaRound.

Where Nova Round works

Headings with a technical flavour

Constant line thickness, arcs and angled cuts suit titles for games, electronics and science topics.

Logos and badges

Arch-shaped M and N and the cup-shaped W and Y give a short name a distinctive outline.

Signage and wayfinding labels

Open spacing and simple arcs keep single words readable on doors, panels and diagrams.

Engraved or cut lettering

The series began as stone-inscription lettering, and the single-thickness strokes follow easily with an engraver or plotter.

Central European titles

The 421 glyphs include Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish accents.

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 Round

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Nova Round is a single Regular cut. Other members of the Nova series vary the letter shapes, not the weight.

Unusual capitals

M, N, W and Y depart from standard capital forms, which changes how all-caps words read.

Latin script only

Latin and Latin Extended are covered; Cyrillic and Greek are absent.

FAQs

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