Astra Nova™
A classic Americana display type.
Designed by François Robert
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Astra Nova is a revitalized classic Americana typeface by François Robert. Following his typeface Baudot, Astra Nova was first introduced in 1969 under the name “Astra” in the rub-down type (dry transfer) format. This iconic display type is now available as a 21st Century digital font ready to once again perform its duty inspiring hope and positivity.
Similar to Robert’s typeface Baudot, the visual concept of this design is letterforms comprised of smaller units on a grid (like pixels) and also channels his admiration for the best aspects of American culture. This new version was carefully engineered to precisely reproduce the subtle vertical overlapping grid of Robert’s original design while also greatly expanding the glyph repertoire to field 993 glyphs.
Astra Nova supports 442 languages including Vietnamese and Oceanian, with broad support for Afrikan languages plus the Greek and Cyrillic scripts. Handy Opentype features such as ligatures (standard and discretionary), fractions, stylistic alternates, and smart Roman numerals are built in to ease access and help make your typography sparkle. You’ll also find a selection of useful symbols and shapes for assembling borders and other elements to apply the same aesthetic to other areas of a layout.
Use Astra Nova extra large to add pizzazz to headlines and titles on posters, logos, book covers, album covers, and as big drop caps in a page layout.
Features
Additional features include: Access All Alternates, Superscript, Denominators, Case-Sensitive Forms, Ordinals, and Localized Forms.
Glyphs
Basic Latin 94
Latin-1 Supplement 95
Latin Extended-A 126
Latin Extended-B 80
IPA Extensions 34
Spacing Modifier Letters 12
Combining Diacritical Marks 22
Greek and Coptic 77
Cyrillic 98
Latin Extended Additional 161
General Punctuation 17
Currency Symbols 18
Letterlike Symbols 3
Arrows 4
Mathematical Operators 13
Geometric Shapes 9
Alphabetic Presentation Forms 5
Latin Extended-C 4
Latin Extended-D 5
Additional Glyphs 64
Astra Nova supports 442 languages. View our language support page to see which.