Poltawski Nowy

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Poltawski Nowy Regular Italic
• Medium 500Poltawski Nowy Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Poltawski Nowy SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Poltawski Nowy Bold Bold Italic

Poltawski Nowy is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Poltawski Nowy

Poltawski Nowy is a serif typeface that brings the 1928 Polish design Antykwa Półtawskiego into digital form. Its most recognisable letters are w and y, drawn with rounded bowls instead of diagonals, and a k whose arm closes into a loop. According to the project notes, the outlines were developed from a foundry specimen book, drawings, punch patterns and punches dating from 1934 to 1955, with characters standardised so the ornamental design also works in running text. The family is variable on a weight axis from 400 to 700, with Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold instances in upright and italic. Its 1,068 glyphs add small caps, superscripts and subscripts, tabular and proportional figures and wider diacritic coverage, including Vietnamese. The designer credits list Adam Półtawski alongside Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka and Ania Wieluńska.

Where Poltawski Nowy works

Book and essay typesetting

The project states a target range of 10 to 18 pt, and small caps and figure variants cover the needs of long-form pages.

Polish-language publishing

The design comes from a Polish original, and the letters for Polish are complete alongside other Central European alphabets.

Cultural and museum identities

The rounded w and y and looped k give exhibition titles and catalogues a recognisable historical voice.

Editorial headings

Four weights up to Bold, each with an italic, give a serif hierarchy without adding a second family.

Tables and annual reports

Tabular figures line up in columns, and superscripts and subscripts handle notes and units.

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
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Poltawski Nowy

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 Poltawski Nowy 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: "Poltawski Nowy";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PoltawskiNowy-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Poltawski Nowy";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PoltawskiNowy-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Poltawski Nowy", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Poltawski Nowy 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=Poltawski+Nowy:ital,wght@0,400..700;1,400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Variable weight, separate italic file

The upright and the italic are two variable files, each with a weight axis from 400 to 700.

Unusual w, y and k

The round-bottomed w and y and the looped k follow the historical model. They are noticeable in every paragraph.

No light weights

The range starts at Regular 400 and ends at Bold 700; there is no Light or Black.

Latin scripts only

Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese are covered. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

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