Nara
Nara explores gaps in traditional type classification, exhibiting characteristics not only of old-style humanist typefaces, but also of modern typefaces, with high contrast and flat, unbracketed serifs. Nara includes two secondary type styles: an upright cursive and an angled italic.
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Design Concept
Nara explores gaps in traditional type classification. It exhibits characteristics of humanist typefaces, such as an oblique axis of contrast between the thick and thin strokes (as in Garamond, Bembo, etc.), but also characteristics of modern typefaces, such as high contrast, narrower underlying letter structures, and flat, unbracketed serifs (as in Bodoni, Didot, etc.). Nara is one of the earliest digital typefaces, originating in the 1980s, before font editors were widely available. Read more about the design process in this article ▸
Two Italics
Nara is an unusual font family that includes two different secondary scripts for situations where you need to emphasise a selection of text that is already italicised. The designer of Nara also explored the notions of what defines a secondary script. While the Cursive version is perfectly upright with a stroke structure inspired by expressive handwriting, Italic uses a slope at 12 degrees of the cursive model.
Numeral Styles
Each weight of Nara includes nine different kinds of numerals. Proportional old-style figures come as default figures in Nara Serif. It also, however, includes lining figures, tabular numerals (both lining and old-style), small caps numerals, superior, inferior, circled and circled inverted numerals. For running text, old-style figures work best; for use in capital setting, use lining figures, and with the small caps, choose the specially designed Small Caps numerals applicable via OpenType layout features. When you take a licence for this font, you can choose your own default numeral variant.
