Joanna Sans Nova was designed by Eric Gill, Terrance Weinzierl and released by Monotype. Joanna Sans Nova contains 16 designs and household bundle options. p > The Joanna ® Sans Nova family is the only typeface in the Eric Gill Series that was not initially developed by Gill. Produced by Monotype Studio designer Terrance Weinzierl over a three-year period with digital applications at the forefront of the design requirements, Joanna Sans Nova is a humanist sans serif based primarily on Gill's original Joanna. The style consists of 16 typefaces, from thin to black, each with a complementary italic.

Joanna Sans Nova has a larger x-height to make sure high levels of legibility-- even on small digital screens. Due to its fundamental humanist percentages, Joanna Sans Nova is remarkably comfortable for longer form reading. Its low contrast in character stroke weights also improves imaging in a variety of environments. In addition, the calligraphic and fluid information enable the roman and italic styles to shine in headlines and other display uses.

Joanna Sans includes a robust series of OpenType features for great typography, including little caps, old style figures, proportional figures, ligatures, superscript and subscript figures and assistance for fractions. With over 1000 glyphs per typeface, Joanna Sans supports more than 50 languages-- in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts.

" I've constantly been a fan of Gill's work, describes Weinzierl, and found the simple, humanist qualities of Joanna actually fitting for a sans serif style. I wanted to make something with Gill flavor, however with more harmony in the extreme weights than Gill Sans-- and with my twist on it. I went through 6 or 7 different italic styles before landing on the present instructions."

" The original Joanna had a really unique italic, Weinzierl continues. "It's really condensed, and has a very shallow angle. I wanted to have an italic that stood apart, but in a various way. I took a cursive direction for the italic information, which are larger and inclined more, both improving character legibility."

The Joanna Sans Nova typeface family becomes part of the new Eric Gill series, making use of Monotype's heritage to remaster and expand and renew Eric Gill's body of work, with more weights, more characters and more languages to meet a large range of style requirements. The series likewise brings to life brand-new aspects influenced by some of Gill's unreleased work, found in Monotype's archive of original typeface drawings and materials of the last century.

Font Family:
· Joanna Sans Nova Thin
· Joanna Sans Nova Thin Italic
· Joanna Sans Nova Light
· Joanna Sans Nova Light Italic
· Joanna Sans Nova Regular
· Joanna Sans Nova Italic
· Joanna Sans Nova Book
· Joanna Sans Nova Book Italic
· Joanna Sans Nova Medium
· Joanna Sans Nova Medium Italic
· Joanna Sans Nova Bold
· Joanna Sans Nova Bold Italic
· Joanna Sans Nova ExtraBold
· Joanna Sans Nova ExtraBold It
· Joanna Sans Nova Black
· Joanna Sans Nova Black Italic

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