18 styles
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Information
National is a deceptively simple sans serif with subtle details that give it a distinctive — but not distracting — personality. It was drawn as a stylistic opposite to Helvetica with looser spacing, unambiguous forms, old-style figures and a “true” italic. The general functional aim is a typeface suitable for long-form reading at small sizes, something classically “typographic”. National’s details are drawn from the era of Akzidenz Grotesk, giving it a humble, workmanlike character with an agreeable tone of voice. While National travels through, and touches on, a lot of historical material, it is designed to thrive in our modern typographic climate.
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18 Styles
Release
2007
- Release
- 2007
- Design
- Kris Sowersby
- Engineering
- Noe Blanco Chester Jenkins
- Classification
- Modern: Lineal/Grotesque
- Awards
- TDC² Award for Typographic Excellence, Judge’s Choice, 2008
- Abenaki
- Afaan Oromo
- Afar
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Alsatian
- Amis
- Anuta
- Aragonese
- Aranese
- Aromanian
- Arrernte
- Arvanitic (Latin)
- Asturian
- Atayal
- Aymara
- Bashkir (Latin)
- Basque
- Belarusian (Latin)
- Bemba
- Bikol
- Bislama
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Cape Verdean Creole
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chamorro
- Chavacano
- Chichewa
- Chickasaw
- Cimbrian
- Cofán
- Corsican
- Creek
- Crimean Tatar (Latin)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dawan
- Delaware
- Dholuo
- Drehu
- Dutch
- English
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Faroese
- Fijian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- Folkspraak
- French
- Frisian
- Friulian
- Gagauz (Latin)
- Galician
- Ganda
- Genoese
- German
- Gikuyu
- Gooniyandi
- Greenlandic (Kalaallisut)
- Guadeloupean Creole
- Gwich’in
- Haitian Creole
- Hän
- Hawaiian
- Hiligaynon
- Hopi
- Hotcąk (Latin)
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Ido
- Ilocano
- Indonesian
- Interglossa
- Interlingua
- Irish
- Istro-Romanian
- Italian
- Jamaican
- Javanese (Latin)
- Jèrriais
- Kala Lagaw Ya
- Kapampangan (Latin)
- Kaqchikel
- Karakalpak (Latin)
- Karelian (Latin)
- Kashubian
- Kikongo
- Kinyarwanda
- Kiribati
- Kirundi
- Klingon
- Kurdish (Latin)
- Ladin
- Latin
- Latino sine Flexione
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Lojban
- Lombard
- Low Saxon
- Luxembourgish
- Maasai
- Makhuwa
- Malay
- Maltese
- Manx
- Māori
- Marquesan
- Megleno-Romanian
- Meriam Mir
- Mirandese
- Mohawk
- Moldovan
- Montagnais
- Montenegrin
- Murrinh-Patha
- Nagamese Creole
- Ndebele
- Neapolitan
- Ngiyambaa
- Niuean
- Noongar
- Norwegian
- Novial
- Occidental
- Occitan
- Oshiwambo
- Ossetian (Latin)
- Palauan
- Papiamento
- Piedmontese
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Potawatomi
- Q’eqchi’
- Quechua
- Rarotongan
- Romanian
- Romansh
- RotokasSami (Inari Sami)
- Sami (Lule Sami)
- Sami (Northern Sami)
- Sami (Southern Sami)
- Samoan
- Sango
- Saramaccan
- Sardinian
- Scottish Gaelic
- Serbian (Latin)
- Seri
- Seychellois Creole
- Shawnee
- Shona
- Sicilian
- Silesian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Slovio (Latin)
- Somali
- Sorbian (Lower Sorbian)
- Sorbian (Upper Sorbian)
- Sotho (Northern)
- Sotho (Southern)
- Spanish
- Sranan
- Sundanese (Latin)
- Swahili
- Swazi
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tahitian
- Tetum
- Tok Pisin
- Tokelauan
- Tongan
- Tshiluba
- Tsonga
- Tswana
- Tumbuka
- Turkish
- Turkmen (Latin)
- Tuvaluan
- Tzotzil
- Uzbek (Latin)
- Venetian
- Vepsian
- Volapük
- Võro
- Wallisian
- Walloon
- Waray-Waray
- Warlpiri
- Wayuu
- Welsh
- Wik-Mungkan
- Wiradjuri
- Wolof
- Xavante
- Xhosa
- Yapese
- Yindjibarndi
- Zapotec
- Zulu
- Zuni
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National Thin | 55kb | |||
National Thin Italic | 59kb | |||
National Light | 67kb | |||
National Light Italic | 71kb | |||
National Book | 60kb | |||
National Book Italic | 56kb | |||
National Regular | 68kb | |||
National Regular Italic | 69kb | |||
National Medium | 62kb | |||
National Medium Italic | 65kb | |||
National Semibold | 67kb | |||
National Semibold Italic | 69kb | |||
National Bold | 69kb | |||
National Bold Italic | 54kb | |||
National Extrabold | 67kb | |||
National Extrabold Italic | 68kb | |||
National Black | 66kb | |||
National Black Italic | 57kb | |||
1150kb |