Joanna Nova was designed by Eric Gill, Ben Jones and released by Monotype. Joanna Nova includes 18 styles and household bundle alternatives. p > The Joanna ® Nova style, by Monotype Studio designer Ben Jones, is a comprehensive upgrade to Eric Gill's original Joanna typefaces and brings this much admired-- but underused-- slab serif typeface into the 21st century. Joanna Nova features 18 typefaces-- more than two times as lots of as the original Joanna-- with a vast array of weights consisting of thin and ultra black, which were not offered in the original design.

Every glyph has actually been redrawn utilizing a range of reference sources, consisting of Gill's initial sketches and the copper patterns utilized in Joanna's initial production. When Jones set out to design Joanna Nova, he saw that the 'genuine Joanna' was not immediately evident. "Some of Gill's original illustrations have a sloped'M'; there is likewise a 'K' and 'R' with a curled leg and a letter 'd' without the flat bottom," he described. "Is this Joanna? Or is it the version utilized to print Gill's Essay on Typography? Or is it the digital version with which the majority of people are surely more familiar than any other version? Ultimately, I believe, none of these and all of these were 'Joanna' because, as with any typeface, it is more the idea or concept behind the typeface that makes it what it is. My approach was to develop a variation of Joanna that appears in your mind when you believe of Joanna."

Jones noted that one of the most distinguishing elements of Joanna is the italics; which, for reasons unknown, a lot of the characters in the existing variations are a lot more condensed than those in the hand-set typefaces of metal type., The newer designs being nearly unusable at little sizes. The italics in Joanna Nova have been reworked to be more clear and closer to their initial widths.

Joanna Nova broadens the original Joanna in several ways that open new typographic possibilities, These additions include several brand-new weights, support for Greek and Cyrillic scripts, little caps for all scripts in both upright and italic designs, a number of numeral options and a host of context-sensitive ligatures.

The Joanna Nova typeface household is part of the new Eric Gill Series, drawing on Monotype's heritage to remaster and expand and renew Eric Gill's body of work, with more weights, more characters and more languages to satisfy a vast array of design requirements. The series likewise brings to life brand-new elements influenced by a few of Gill's unreleased work, discovered in Monotype's archive of initial typeface drawings and products of the last century.

Font Family:
· Joanna Nova Thin
· Joanna Nova Thin Italic
· Joanna Nova Light
· Joanna Nova Light Italic
· Joanna Nova Regular
· Joanna Nova Italic
· Joanna Nova Book
· Joanna Nova Book Italic
· Joanna Nova Medium
· Joanna Nova Medium Italic
· Joanna Nova Bold
· Joanna Nova Bold Italic
· Joanna Nova Extra Bold
· Joanna Nova Extra Bold Italic
· Joanna Nova Black
· Joanna Nova Black Italic
· Joanna Nova Ultra Black
· Joanna Nova Ultra Black Italic

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