Nova Square

Try Nova Square

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Nova Square Regular

About Nova Square

Nova Square is a display typeface in which every curve is squared: bowls are rectangles with rounded corners and strokes keep one thickness. In the specimen stems end in slanted cuts, the capital A, M and N are flat-topped arches without diagonals, and the W is a squared double cup. The designer explains that the Nova fonts go back to lettering he made for inscriptions on stone, at first only capitals and digits; in 2010 he moved the design to the computer, added a lowercase, and turned the alternative letter shapes that piled up into six related fonts named after their forms, later joined by a monospaced one. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 421 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. Wojciech Kalinowski is credited as designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Nova Square works

Tech and gaming titles

Rounded-square bowls and slanted stem cuts give a heading a machined, digital look.

Interface headings and panel labels

Uniform stroke thickness and generous spacing keep short labels clear.

Signage and plaques

The letterforms descend from stone-inscription lettering, and their straight segments suit engraved or cut signs.

Logos

Arch-shaped A, M and N make a short name distinctive.

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 Square

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

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

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

Things to know

Unusual capitals

A, M, N and W use arch or cup shapes instead of diagonals, which differs from the forms readers expect in all-caps lines.

Part of a larger set

The other Nova fonts (Cut, Flat, Oval, Round, Slim and Mono) are separate families.

One style

Regular only, without bold or italic.

FAQs

Collections with Nova Square

• Futuristic display fonts for sci-fi titles and logos

  Wide, squared and constructed display faces for science-fiction titles, technology logos, album art and game branding.

Similar fonts

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