Nabla - Google Fonts

About

Typearture's Nabla: an Isometric COLRv1 font

Nabla is a color font inspired by isometric computer games, built using the COLRv1 format. This format allows for smooth gradients, sharp highlights and blended shadows, resulting in a bold and vibrant design. It includes two font variations axes, one for the depth of the letters, the other for the thickness of the highlight, and includes multiple color palettes.

This font uses the COLRv1, CPAL and SVG tables. Please visit the gf-guide color page to learn more about Color Fonts technology.

To contribute, see github.com/justvanrossum/nabla.

Designers

Arthur Reinders Folmer

Arthur Reinders Folmer attended the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, and afterwards started his own design studio in Haarlem, the Netherlands, where he specialises on combining typography and illustration. Next to his design studio, Arthur also runs his type foundry, Typearture.

Through Typearture he creates typefaces that merge concepts, culture, experiment and most importantly: a bit of humor. His designs play with concepts, conventions of written language, and embed cultural references. The Typearture fonts are a type of adventure, and they explores all the possibilities that can be contained in a font-file.

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Just van Rossum

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.