Nova Slim

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Nova Slim Regular

About Nova Slim

Nova Slim is a display face drawn with a line of constant thickness. In the specimen the capitals A and N are built as round-topped arches, the W is a pair of joined cups, the Y is a cup on a stem, and vertical strokes end at the baseline with a diagonal cut. The designer's own account says the starting point was NovaCut, lettering made for inscriptions in stone that at first had only capitals and digits; in 2010 it was moved to the computer, a lowercase was added, and alternative letter shapes drawn along the way became separate fonts named after their shapes: Cut, Flat, Oval, Round, Slim and Square, with a monospaced Nova Mono added last. Nova Slim is one Regular file with 421 glyphs and is not a variable font. Wojciech Kalinowski is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Nova Slim works

Titles and logotypes

Arched A and N give a short name an outline unlike a conventional sans.

Plaques and inscriptions

The letters descend from lettering cut in stone, and capitals with digits were the original set.

Posters and covers

The even line and slanted stem ends hold up as a large, simple pattern.

Central European headings

The 421 glyphs include Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Turkish letters.

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 Slim

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Nova Slim has a single weight, Regular 400; the font file names its style Book.

Part of a set of shapes

Nova Cut, Flat, Oval, Round, Slim and Square share one origin and differ in the shape of their curves; Nova Mono is the monospaced member.

Unconventional capitals

A, N and W depart from their usual skeletons, which affects how quickly all-capital words are read.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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