Typography for Nostra
A monospaced family where roman and italic share nothing but width
Nostra is an extra-wide monospaced type family released in 2018, comprising two stylistically opposed styles: Sett, a heavy roman, and Stream, a lightweight italic drawn from flourished scripts, graffiti, and snakes in jars. The two styles share only their extreme fixed-width proportions, their pairing built on contrast rather than harmony. The family supports Latin and Cyrillic; the Cyrillic set was developed with input from Philipp Neumeyer and from Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky of CSTM Fonts.
Set in Nostra
Insights
- Fixed-width construction enables pattern-like layouts that oscillate between readable text and optical texture.
- Sett includes an alternative thin punctuation set, while both styles offer alternate glyphs, borders, patterns, ordinal numerals, and fractions.
- The Cyrillic glyph set was developed with specialist input from three external collaborators, two of whom are from CSTM Fonts.
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