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37 years in the making: the slab that closes a trilogy
Nara Slab is the third member of Andrej Krátky's Nara trilogy, completing a 37-year development arc alongside the high-contrast Nara (1989–2009) and the low-contrast Nara Sans (2017). It grafts heavy, flat-ended serifs onto Nara's humanist structure to prioritise endurance at small sizes and in demanding conditions. Two secondary styles — an upright cursive sharing the roman's uppercase, and a conventional angled italic — extend its range across complex editorial hierarchies.
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- Nara Slab resolves a classification gap: it combines the oblique contrast axis of humanist/Renaissance types with the high contrast, uniform widths, and flat unbracketed serifs of moderns such as Bodoni and Didot.
- The upright cursive shares identical uppercase letters with the roman; only the lowercase is narrowed, distinguishing it from a conventional italic.
- Each weight ships with nine numeral styles — proportional old-style (default), lining, tabular lining, tabular old-style, small caps, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted — with the default variant selectable at licence time.
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