Bona Nova SC - Google Fonts

About

Bona Nova is a digitisation of Bona, a cursive typeface designed in 1971 by Andrzej Heidrich — the creator of Polish banknotes. Besides giving it a digital form, this project was the opportunity to expand the character set, design the small caps, alternates and opentype functions for the typeface. Two new versions has been created together with the original author; a Regular and a Bold, to give the family a form of a classical triad.

To contribute, see github.com/kosmynkab/Bona-Nova.

Designers

Capitalics

Capitalics Warsaw Type Foundry is one of the first digital type foundries in Poland. It was started as a group collective of typeface designers, out of passion for good typography. Their designs are aimed for conscious customers who look for unique and high quality typefaces. The initiating founder was Michał Jarociński.

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Mateusz Machalski

Mateusz Machalski, PhD, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (PhD in Typeface Design 2020, MA in Graphic Design 2014). He works at the Faculty of Graphics in the Studio of Multimedia Artistic Creation at his alma mater. He is a member of the board of the Association of Applied Graphic Designers in Poland.

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Andrzej Heidrich

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.