Typeface Family for Print and Web
A typeface 37 years in the making that refuses to sit inside any single classification
Nara is a type family designed by Andrej Krátky, originating in 1989 before font editors were widely available and published in 2009 by Typotheque. It deliberately bridges traditional classification boundaries, combining a humanist oblique stress axis with the high contrast and flat, unbracketed serifs associated with modern faces such as Bodoni and Didot. Over 37 years the family expanded into a trilogy—Nara Serif, Nara Sans, and Nara Slab—spanning expressive display to functional text use. It received the Slovak National Prize for Design.
Set in Nara
Insights
- The design originated in 1989.
- Each weight ships with nine numeral variants—including circled and circled inverted—selectable as the default at license time.
- The family includes two distinct secondary scripts: an upright cursive with handwriting-inspired stroke structure and a 12-degree sloped italic derived from that cursive model.
- Nara Slab completes the trilogy for demanding conditions; Nara Sans was developed for increased neutrality.
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