Informations

Nostra plays with a feeling of satisfaction: how a few thin strokes can create the shape of a letter, either cut in a solid mass or traced in the air. Its monospaced width makes Nostra almost pattern-like, half-way between a legible and an abstract system, a bloc of text and an optical illusion.

Nostra presents an atypical couple only brought together by their radical proportions. The Sett is heavy and stable like a brick wall when the Stream, inspired by flourished scripts, graffiti and snakes in jars, is light and all in curves.



Family

2 styles

Release

2019

Related typefaces

Petit Frère Wide



Notes on design


→ PDF Specimen
→ Type testers
→ OpenType features
→ Additional information
→ Character set
→ In use

2 styles

Stream

  

Sett

  

Snake in a jar (photo: istolethetv, CC BY 2.0)
Rock formation in Kadirli (photo: Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0)

OpenType features

AeAe
Borders (ss01)
«Oh«Oh
Thin punctuation (ss02)
1/31/3
Fractions (frac)
ДюДю
Localized forms (locl)

Additional information

Design

Lucas Descroix

Consulting on Cyrillic

Ilya Ruderman & Yury Ostromentsky

Consulting on Greek

George Triantafyllakos

Awards & distinctions

Modern Cyrillic 2019
Communication Arts 2020 Competition
Typographica's ‘Favorite Typefaces of 2019’

Font formats

OTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Glyph count

ca. 760 glyphs

Coverage

Extended Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Emojis

For more information on the character set and language coverage, please have a look at the PDF specimen.

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